self-control Quotes

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

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

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

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.

To give ones self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.