self-control Quotes

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.