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Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
Sep 24, 2025
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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 the object.
You can have anything you want
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.