Josh Groban Quotes

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

I'm one of those artists who, if you'd let me tweak, would probably keep going and going, so it comes to the point where sometimes you just have to let go and make the decision, 'Okay, that's it.'

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,"I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy" is a function of our own weakness.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.