Below are the best quotes we could find on Self-Expression and self control.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts.
You cannot trade the courage needed to live every moment for immunity from life’s sorrows. Many things are clearly up to us. And many others are not. I can see no evidence that the universe works on a simple meritocratic system of cause and effect. Bad things happen to good people—all the time.
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