Browsing Quotes With Tag: self-control (61)
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance for joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days into a hellish turmoil.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Much of what we call evil… can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
Speaker: Michel de MontaignePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every ailment under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try to find it;
If there be none, never mind it.Speaker: Mother GoosePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not miserable to be blind, it is only miserable not to be able to endure blindness.
Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those who do not know how to worry die young.
Speaker: Alexis CarrelPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You deserve very little credit for being what you are – and remember, the man who comes to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserves very little discredit for being what he is.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.
Speaker: Lao TszePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a man’s fight begins with himself, he is worth something.
Speaker: Robert BrowningPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it. But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others – yes, and a lot less dangerous.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can, with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Act in earnest, and you will become naturally earnest in all you do.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
So, to feel brave, act as if we were brave. Use all of our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When passions come upon men in strength beyond due measure, their gift is neither one of glory nor of greatness.
…May I know the blessing of a heart that is not passion’s slave; no fairer gift can the gods bestow.” ChorusSpeaker: EurpiidesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was unreciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out. These were people who could not control themselves, or protect themselves, people who, if only temporarily, were no longer content to occupy their own space, people who could no longer rely on a new jacket, a bag of grass and an afternoon rerun of The Rockford Files to make them complete.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: About a BoyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, that through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!