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"I am, indeed, a king because I know how to rule myself"
Pietro Aretino, Poet
"It's one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"Give thy thoughts no tongue"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel"
Voltaire, Writer
"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"It is, after all, the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Man seems to be capable of great virtues, but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer, but not of keeping his temper"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself!"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey"
Sydney J. Harris, Journalist
"Rebellions of the belly are the worst"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors"
Jim Rohn, Businessman
"For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward"
Jim Rohn, Businessman
"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"Control thy passions, lest they take vengence on thee"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing, but somehow we cannot start"
William James, Philosopher
"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice"
William James, Philosopher
"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not"
William James, Philosopher
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence, who lay abed late in the morning"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
"It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"He who begins many things finishes but few"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
"Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
"Only those who want everything done for them are bored"
Billy Graham, Clergyman
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