Quotes About Self-control

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

I do not cough for my own amusement.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected or melancholy? When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?

There should be moderation in everything.

I will be mistress of myself.

for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man)

Bien heureusement, pensait Elizabeth, personne ne devait s'en apercevoir. Car, à beaucoup de sensibilité Jane unissait une égalité d'humeur et une maîtrise d'elle-même qui la préservait des curiosités indiscrètes.

In that moment, as they stood smiling at one another, Charlotte was conscious of several contradictory sensations, of which the chief were these: annoyance with herself for being incapable of governing her own actions, satisfaction that Sidney had won this very minor victory over her, amusement, embarrassment - an odd something between perturbation and pleasure - and above all else, a flutter of joyful spirits which made her feel she had strayed somehow into a most unfamiliar world.

For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself.

I must endeavour to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

She regained the street--happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.

but angry people are not always wise;

if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now

This violent oppression of spirits continued the whole evening. She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.