(61 quotes found)
“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
William Butler Yeats
“We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”
Jane Fonda
“If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.”
James Allen
“Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made”
Jacques Barzun
“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”
Billie Jean King
“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”
B. F. Skinner
“I am lord of myself, accountable to none”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
Epicurus
“Man cannot live without self-control”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
