Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

If you want to be great in what you're doing, you really need to limit yourself, so I consider my life as the life of a monk.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

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

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

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

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

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

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.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.