Orson Scott Card Quotes

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

I will count to 10 before tweeting.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

A prince must, above all things, accustom himself to moderate his desires. For as he has the power of gratifying them, if he once gives way to them, he will run to the greatest excess, and, by destroying his subjects, will at last complete his own ruin. In order to form himself to this moderation, nothing is more proper, than to accustom himself to patience. This is the most necessary of all virtues for those, who are to command. A man must be patient to become master of himself and others.

I didn't stay patient enough at times, maybe.

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.

As an athlete, I know that I'm such a perfectionist that I'll want to go out and keep working on something over and over until it's perfect. Part of growing up is learning to take a step back.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.