Quotes about Self-control, page 2

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Quote by Aeschylus about self-control

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Quote by Aeschylus about self-control

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Quote by Aesop about self-control

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about self-control

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about self-control

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about self-control

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about self-control

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Quote by John Bradshaw about self-control

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about self-control

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about self-control

On a more practical level, what it takes to succeed is to be self-critical enough to learn from your errors, but confident enough (arrogant enough? ) to decide that what you've got is good enough to write and, having written, good enough to send...

Quote by Orson Scott about self-control

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Quote by Jane Austen about self-control

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

Quote by Michael Chabon about self-control

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Quote by Charles Dickens about self-control

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Quote by Clint Eastwood about self-control

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about self-control

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about self-control

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about self-control

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about self-control

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about self-control