{"quotes":[{"text":"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.","author":"Eleanor Roosevelt","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","leadership","self-control"],"id":1965,"author_id":"Eleanor+Roosevelt"},{"text":"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["life","life-lesson","self-control"],"id":3805,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"Great men have great discipline.","author":"Habeeb Akande","tags":["discipline","great","greatness","hero","leaders","leadership","mabhood","masculinity","men","restraint","role-model","self-control","strength"],"id":3957,"author_id":"Habeeb+Akande"},{"text":"Many of us are reactive, not proactive. We react. We hit back. We are ‘an eye for an eye’ practitioners. We attack when we are attacked, with good measure. Our barometer reads from the environment and makes us act accordingly. We are mirrors who reflect the anger in others, the bad attitude in the other person, the negative comments of others. Let me show you a higher level of living.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["anger","life","living","self-control"],"id":4655,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so are selfishness and impatience. It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; so easy to be indignant without being intelligent; so easy to be impulsive without being insightful. It is so easy to command others when we are not in control of ourselves.","author":"Neil A. Maxwell","tags":["patience","self-control"],"id":6028,"author_id":"Neil+A.+Maxwell"},{"text":"The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["act","attitude","control","control-your-self","differ","difference","every-thing","everything","food-for-thought","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","level","measure","measurement","nothing","poor","poverty","react","rich","self","self-control","wealthy"],"id":11257,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.","author":"Marcus Aurelius","tags":["ataraxy","inner-strength","inspiration","self-control","strength"],"id":13158,"author_id":"Marcus+Aurelius"},{"text":"Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed 'his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.","author":"Joseph J. Ellis","tags":["influence","leadership","self-control","the-arithmetic"],"id":16434,"author_id":"Joseph+J.+Ellis"},{"text":"How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["ego","self-awareness","self-control"],"id":18775,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.","author":"Robert E. Lee","tags":["inspirational","leadership","self-control"],"id":22161,"author_id":"Robert+E.+Lee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":192,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}