self-control Quotes

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.