self-control Quotes

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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.

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.

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

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.