This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Maria Von Ebner-Eschenbach, or Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachová, Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
Character | Control | Freedom | Self | Self-control |
Holding-in creates horrid poisons which wear us out before our time. There are more deaths caused by ingrown, suppurating self-control than the medical profession know of.
Control | Self | Self-control | Time | Wisdom |
Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
Aristocracies are infinitely more expert in the science of legislation than democracies ever can be. They are possessed of a self-control that protects them fro the errors of temporary excitement.
Control | Excitement | Science | Self | Self-control | Wisdom |
Peace is self-control at its widest - at the width where the “self” has been lost, and the interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
Control | Peace | Personality | Self | Self-control |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Personal health is preserved by learning about one’s own constitution, by finding out what is good or bad for oneself, by continual self-control in eating habits and comforts (but just to the extent needed for self-preservation), by forgoing sensual pleasures, and lastly, by the professional skill of those to whose science these matters belong.
Control | Good | Health | Learning | Science | Self | Self-control | Self-preservation | Skill |
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Control | Man | Rule | Self | Self-control |
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
Industry, thrift, and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Inayat Khan, aka Hazrat Inayat Khan, fully Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
Inayat Khan, aka Hazrat Inayat Khan, fully Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
Every morning I wake up, give thanks to God, because you have something to do, whether you like the job it would not. Forced to work and the work will best preserve your modesty, self-control ability, diligence, persistence, satisfaction, and a hundred other virtues which are not known by people who are careless.
People | Self-control | Will | Work |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
God | Self-control | God |
Shrimad Bhagavatam, or the Bhâgavata Purâna, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or Bhāgavata NULL
One who chants the holy name of the Lord is immediately freed from the reactions of unlimited sins, even if he chants indirectly to indicate something else (sanketya), jokingly (parihasya), for musical entertainment (stobha), or even neglectfully (helana). This is accepted by all the learned scholars of the scriptures.
God | Mind | Nothing | Self-control | God | Intellect | Think |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
One of our greatest enemies is secret resentment. Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Life | Life | Self-control |
O Lord! May our ears listen to nothing but auspicious words, may our eyes see nothing but auspicious things; may we have healthy bodies and be blessed with long life.
Enemy | Self-control |