self-control Quotes

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.