Self Control famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
-- Charles Darwin -
The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
-- Dorothy Nevill -
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
-- James Allen -
There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
-- Jim Prentice -
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
-- Millicent Fenwick -
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
-- Thucydides -
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
-- W. Clement Stone -
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
-- Wilkie Collins -
Those who can command themselves command others.
-- William Hazlitt -
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
-- George O'Neil -
Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
-- Abraham Low
