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Self-Control
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
By : Henry Ward Beecher
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"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."
By : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"I am,
indeed,
a king,
because I know how
to rule myself."
By : Pietro Aretino, 10 May 1537
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"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing."
By : Michel de Montaigne
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"I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master."
By : Antonio Porchia
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
By : Frederick Douglass
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"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
By : Benjamin Franklin
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"If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us."
By : William Feather
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"If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength."
By : François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
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"In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned."
By : Jane Haddam
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"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
By : Buddha
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"It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always: this occupation ought to last as long as life."
By : Queen Christina of Sweden
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"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
By : Mick Jagger
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"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
By : Mark Twain
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"Let me . . . ; remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God."
By : Woodrow Wilson
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