self-control Quotes

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.