Self Control Quotes

“Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.”

“Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.”

“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

“Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.”

“Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.”

“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.”

“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.”

“I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.”

“O constancy, be strong upon my side,Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.”

“Great men should drink with harness on their throats.”

“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”

“Self-command is the main elegance.”

“Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.”

“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”

“Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.”

“Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.”

“To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)”

“Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.”

“Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.”

“Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.”

“The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.”

“Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.”

“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words.”

“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”