Controlling power Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes…

— Charlotte Dacre

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

— Gautama Buddha

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

— Antonio Porchia

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

— Augustus William Hare

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

— Vida Dutton Scudder

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

— Augustus William Hare

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

— Michel de Montaigne

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and…

— Augustus William Hare

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

— Adela Rogers St. Johns

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of…

— John C. Maxwell