Quotes about Self-control, page 5

There is no Good without Evil as there cannot be Evil without Good. By wanting Good, Man’s Sacred Self looks towards the future, towards Destiny and this is why Man wants Good to be granted to the future, to the yet unknown Destiny that once...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about self-control

This is man’s self and no matter how much man would like to become a perfect being that would belong to Good he will realize that this perfection will always face the need to be referenced precisely to Evil in order to exist.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about self-control

Consequently, the sentimental furniture that becomes a religious one belongs without a doubt to the environment, to the outside and in no way to the inside, to the self in which this exterior reflects like in a mirror of our own Destiny.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about self-control

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Quote by George Orwell about self-control

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about self-control

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Quote by Helen Keller about self-control

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

Quote by June Jordan about self-control

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Quote by Boles³aw Prus about self-control

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about self-control

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Quote by Arthur Miller about self-control

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Quote by Georg Buchner about self-control

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

Quote by John Milton about self-control

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Quote by John Milton about self-control

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Quote by Johann Gottfried von Herder about self-control

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

Quote by Sandra Cisneros about self-control

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Quote by Susan Sontag about self-control

The heroism is a moral attitude that consists of the same leaven as self-sacrifice.

Quote by Dimitrie Gusti about self-control

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Quote by Irving Layton about self-control

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Quote by Irving Wallace about self-control

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Quote by Thomas Hughes about self-control