self-control quotes

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

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.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.