44 Quotes Tagged: self-control

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

"The very first element for having control over others is, of course, to have control over oneself. If I cannot take charge of myself, I cannot take charge of others. The next, perhaps, is — not to try to "seem" anything, but to be what we would seem.
A person in charge must be felt more than she is heard — not heard more than she is felt. She must fulfil her charge without noisy disputes, by the silent power of a consistent life, in which there is no seeming, and no hiding, but plenty of discretion. She must exercise authority without appearing to exercise it."

The best fighter is never angry.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.