44 Quotes Tagged: self-control

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

"To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond — . To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con, at will; to condescend to them, for a few hours; to seat oneself on them as on a horse, often as on an ass — for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as much as of their fire. To reserve one's three hundred foregrounds; also the dark glasses; for there are cases when nobody may look into our eyes, still less into our "grounds." And to choose for company that impish and cheerful vice, courtesy. And to remain master of one's four virtues: of courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude."

The best fighter is never angry.

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

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.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.

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

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

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.