Get Started
Home
Authors
Tags
Search
×
Self control Quotes
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses"
—
George Santayana
"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained"
—
William Blake
"The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates"
—
Gabor Mate
"He who would rule the world must first be able to rule himsel"
—
Plato
"The man who can control his desires and appetites is capable of undertaking the most difficult and noble tasks."
—
Bertrand Russell
"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
—
John Locke
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual"
—
Thomas Jefferson
"The controlled person is a powerful person He who always keeps his head will always get ahead"
—
Norman Vincent Peale
"Moderation multiplies pleasures and increases pleasure."
—
Democritus
"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses."
—
Brian Tracy
"One can be the master of what one does but never of what one feels."
—
Gustave Flaubert
"It is the mind that commands the body and always obeys when the mind asks."
—
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Only you can control your future"
—
Dr. Seuss
"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all "
—
Benjamin Franklin
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
—
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Previous
7
8
9
10
11
12
Next