self-control Quotes

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'