Browsing Quotes With Tag: self-control (61)
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If you want to be offended, you will be. But, if you are offended, it’s because you want to be.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thoughts, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[The mind] is the agent of the Almighty, clothed with mortal tabernacles and we must learn to discipline it, bring it to bear on one point and not allow the devil to interfere or confuse it nor divert it from the great object that we have in view.
Speaker: Orson PrattPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Speaker: Swedish proverbPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We can live together in the God-given pattern of marriage in accomplishing that of which we are capable if we will exercise discipline of self and refrain from trying to discipline our companion.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently.
…Courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Credit is so easy to obtain. In fact, it is almost thrust upon us. Those who use credit cards to overspend unwisely should consider eliminating them. It is much better that a plastic credit card should perish than a family dwindle and perish in debt.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if there is to be a return to the old and sacred values, it must begin in the home.
It is here that truth is learned, that integrity is cultivated, that self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured.Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The question is not one of managing time, but one of managing ourselves with the time we have. Each minute is a little thing and yet with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am convinced that in the long run no one can hurt another without the other’s consent; that is, hurt him in a deeply significant, personal, internal sense. This is because we always have the power to choose a response to what someone else does to us. This may be the reason why failure to forgive someone else is a greater sin than that which he has done to us. That is, it causes more damage to the unforgiving one – a damage in the mind and heart – than that caused by what the other person may do to him externally.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are exhausted far more from the tension of internal disharmony – not doing what we know we should – than from hard, unremitting work. And, naturally, the very effort to escape such tension – pleasure-seeking, self-indulgence, escapism – produces more tension.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The next time someone offends you, strive for the God/Christ-centeredness and bless them in return. Pray for those who persecute you and speak evil against you. Realize that this is one of the missions to which you have been called, and don’t ask to be saved from it.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Until people see and feel, they will not hear. If they see a model contrary to what they hear – if they feel anger or rejection breathing behind words of love – they will be confused.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Negligence in small things leads both to and from negligence in large things.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to change the world is to change your head, that is, your thinking, your perceptions.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!