Jacob Rees-Mogg Quotes

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

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.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

Teach him to deny himself.

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

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

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.