self-control Quotes

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.