He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty.

~ Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu Self Control

A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.

~ Osa Johnson

Osa Johnson Self Control

A little of what you fancy does you good.

~ Marie Lloyd

Marie Lloyd Self Control

Gammy used to say Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.

~ Betty Macdonald

Betty Macdonald Self Control

Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

~ Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau Self Control

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

~ L. M. Montgomery

L. M. Montgomery Self Control

Superior people never make long visits.

~ Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore Self Control

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

~ Ouida

Ouida Self Control

Never eat more than you can lift.

~ Miss Piggy

Miss Piggy Self Control

What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

~ Aristotle

Aristotle Self Control

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling but deep down the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey Self Control

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

~ Anonymous

Anonymous Self Control

Without discipline there's no life at all.

~ Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn Self Control

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Self Control

Many people have the ambition to succeed they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job there is no need to master themselves.

~ John Stevenson

John Stevenson Self Control

Waiting is one of the great arts.

~ Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham Self Control

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.

~ Helen Gurley Brown

Helen Gurley Brown Self Control

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

~ Adelaide Proctor

Adelaide Proctor Self Control

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough.

~ Gail Sheehy

Gail Sheehy Self Control

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

~ Gail Sheehy

Gail Sheehy Self Control

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher Self Control

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

~ Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin Self Control

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

~ Phyllis Mcginley

Phyllis Mcginley Self Control

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

~ Amy Alcott

Amy Alcott Self Control

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.

~ Laura Ashley

Laura Ashley Self Control

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

~ Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore Self Control

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

~ Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Self Control

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

~ Taylor Caldwell

Taylor Caldwell Self Control

Not being able to govern events I govern myself.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Michel De Montaigne Self Control

As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.

~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Self Control

That is always our problem not how to get control of people but how all together we can get control of a situation.

~ Mary Parker Follett

Mary Parker Follett Self Control

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

~ Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead Self Control

He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.

~ Philip Massinger

Philip Massinger Self Control

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion however unpopular are allowed to put across their points of view.

~ Betty Boothroyd

Betty Boothroyd Self Control

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.

~ Christine Downing

Christine Downing Self Control

The highest result of education is tolerance.

~ Helen Keller

Helen Keller Self Control

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.

~ Mary F. Robinson

Mary F. Robinson Self Control

Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

~ Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Self Control

When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

~ Anne Wilson Schaef

Anne Wilson Schaef Self Control

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

~ George Eliot

George Eliot Self Control
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