Joan D. Vinge Quotes

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

The only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

The disciplined are free.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

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

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Those who can command themselves command others.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

We all have to recognize, no matter how great our strength, we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.

Self-control is true power.

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

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

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

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.