self-control – kevinwarstadt.com

Quote of the day 02/03/26

From Epictetus: “If you wish to be invincible, make yourself indifferent to what is not in your control.”

From Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose.”

From Chanakya: “Control your senses or they will control you.”

From William James: “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

From Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”

From John Milton: “Yet he who reigns within himself, and rulesPassions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”

From Baruch Spinoza: “I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.”

From Xenophon: “Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.”

From the Dhammapada: “He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot—him I call a real driver: other people are merely holding the reins.”