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| Quotes | Self Control |  |
Self Control"The best remedy for anger is delay." "We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are
not willing to see our children do." "There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest
of a vicious habit." "It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy
all that follow." "The ruin of most men dates from idle moments." "We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams." "It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent." "Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one." "The wind of anger blows out the lamp of reason." "Every time we open our mouths men look into our minds." "It is better to remain silent and be though a fool, than
to open our mouths and remove all doubt." "A speech, to be immortal, need not be eternal." "There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if
they could but govern their tongues." "No man is free who is not master of himself." "Your thoughts are the architect of your destiny." "Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area
in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes
a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that
choice." "The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct,
the better we will manage our mortality." "You can tell more about a person by what he says about others
than what others say about him." "How a man plays a game shows something of his character.
How he loses shows all of it." "My friend, you can't talk yourself out of problems you behave
yourself into." "One of the greatest tragedies we witness almost daily is
the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives
are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity
is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence.
Appetite robs them of will." "If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master." "It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you
can loose it in a minute." "How a man plays a game shows something of his character.
How he looses shows all of it." "Develop discipline of self so that, more and more, you do
not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted
with the same temptation time and time again. You need only to decide
some things once. How great a blessing it is to be free of agonizing
over and over again regarding a temptation. To do such is time-consuming
and very risky." |
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