Quotations
Self - control
You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.
- Carrie Latet
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
- Franklin P. Jones
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'
- Stephen Covey
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
- Antonio Porchia
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
- Theodor W. Adorno
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
- Gautama Buddha
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
- Pietro Aretino
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
- Wayne W. Dyer
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
- Mick Jagger
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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