Self-Control Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

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• I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim
• Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they… — James Buchan
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. — Chanakya
• Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. — Tom Kite
• Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. — Robert Burns
• Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace. — Rumi
• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control… — Rafael Nadal
• I hate exercising self-control. — Kate Upton
• God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after… — Richard Holloway

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