self-control Quotes

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.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

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

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.