Keira Knightley Quotes

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.