self-control Quotes

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.