Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
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Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
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