Sting Quotes

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

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

That's a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.

I'm actually a pretty quiet guy when it comes to fighting. I'm pretty serious. When I go out to fight people I'm not a big talker.

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.