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Tag: self, control

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

Barbara Walters

Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

The less said the better.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you!

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

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.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Sharon Anthony Bower

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.