The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
~ Millicent Fenwick
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.
~ Marie De France
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
~ George Eliot
It was enough just to sit there without words.
~ Louise Erdrich
Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.
~ Meg Greenfield
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
~ Susan Griffin
Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
~ Doris Grumbach
Next to entertaining or impressive talk a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.
~ Florence Hurst Harriman
Love understands love it needs no talk.
~ Frances Ridley Havergal
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
~ Lillian Hellman
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
~ Julia Ward Howe
Handle them carefully for words have more power than atom bombs.
~ Pearl Strachan Hurd
One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.
~ Marie Leneru
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
~ Charlotte Lennox
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
~ Hannah Moore
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
~ Myrtle Reed
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.
~ Muriel Spark
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
~ Freya Stark
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
~ Gertrude Stein
Minimum information given with maximum politeness.
~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
A gossip is one who talks to you about others a bore is one who talks to you about himself and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
~ Lisa Kirk
Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
~ Anaïs Nin
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
~ Mother Teresa
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
~ Barbara Walters
The less said the better.
~ Jane Austen
No man is free who is not master of himself.
~ Epictetus
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land and then is when we are in bad trouble.
~ Joan Didion
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.
~ Aristotle
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.
~ Sharon Anthony Bower
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
~ Samuel Johnson
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.
~ John Milton
Recognize the signs, these perpetual question and need to control. Never be a part of someone else's obsession. Let them carry it alone, with their snakeskin smile. These are the people that hold their hand out and it’s as cold as their heart.
~ Ron Baratono
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
~ Elon Musk
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
~ Alexis De Tocqueville
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
~ Rocco Dispirito
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
~ James F. Cooper
