Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

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

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

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

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

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.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.