top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Self-Control quotes
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil."
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."
"Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below."
"Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start."
"Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways."
"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances."
bottom of page