Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Self Control

• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Self

• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Anger, Men

• The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Let It Go

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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