self-control Quotes

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.