exercising control Quotes

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

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

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

I have to rein myself in sometimes.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.