Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

God defend me from myself.

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.