self-control Quotes

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

We never repent of having eaten too little.

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

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.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.