self-control Quotes

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.