"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Self-Control, Eyes, Regain, Inner, Peace

"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The lack of money is the root of all evil."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Self-Control, Victory, Enemies, Self

"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Self-Control, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Self-Control, Mind, Control, Power, Thought

"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Self-Control, Discipline, Gratification, Delaying, Patience

"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Self-Control, Calm, Struggle, Strength, Pain

"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

Self-Control, Emotion, Control, Behavior, Wisdom

"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Self-Control, Control, Experience, Influence, Power

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"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."

Inspirational

"Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self assertive humble. ...truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis that reconciles the two."

Philosophy

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

Peace

"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."

Unity

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."

Hope

"Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will."

Purpose

"What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis."

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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."

"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."

"The lack of money is the root of all evil."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."

"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."

"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."

"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."

"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."

Explore more quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."

"A lie cannot live."

"I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems."

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."

"Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will."

"What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis."