Self-Control Quotes

“Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.”

“Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

“Bad men obey their lusts as servants obey their masters.”

“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”

“Anybody can become angry; that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.”

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

“As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.”

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

Seneca

"The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself."

Benjamin Graham