Self-control Quotes

14 quotations about Self-control
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings · Self-control
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
Robert Browning · Self-control
Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
Robert Burns · Self-control
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius · Self-control
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon · Self-control
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao-Tzu · Self-control
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
James Russell Lowell · Self-control
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
Philip Massinger · Self-control
He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
John Milton · Self-control
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Friedrich Nietzsche · Self-control
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
William Shakespeare · Self-control
I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
Count Leo Tolstoy · Self-control
Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.
Source Unknown · Self-control
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf · Self-control

Authors on Self-control

Josh Billings Robert Browning Robert Burns Confucius Edward Gibbon Lao-Tzu James Russell Lowell Philip Massinger John Milton Friedrich Nietzsche William Shakespeare Count Leo Tolstoy Source Unknown Virginia Woolf