Browsing Quotes With Tag: self-control (61)
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The only control placed on us is self-control—self-control born of respect for the divine power this gift represents.
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Personal Purity, Feb 2000Posted: 13 Jun 2016 at 6:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any one can be such a fool if he lets himself. And he can always stop it if he makes up his mind.
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Until you can say 'I am my master,’ you cannot say 'I am thy servant.”
Speaker: Stephen R. CoveyPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.
Speaker: Robert FrostPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
Speaker: Warren BuffettSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'Fickle Fate’ is a vicious goddess who brings no permanent good to anyone. On the contrary, she brings ruin to almost every man upon whom she showers unearned gold. She makes wanton spenders, who soon dissipate all they receive and are left beset by overwhelming appetites and desires they have not the ability to gratify.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Speaker: Herm AlbrightPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water; they are good servants but bad masters.
Speaker: AesopPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
’Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one is free who is not a master of himself.
Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depths of his failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Speaker: Leonardo da VinciPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best answer to anger is silence.
Speaker: German proverbPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To ignore an insult is the true test of courage.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can either complain that the roses have thorns, or thank God that the thorns have roses.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What would be the use of eternity to a person who cannot use well one half hour?
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
Speaker: Tyron EdwardsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Speaker: Hugh DownsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!