Top 30 Control Your Impulses Quotes
#1. If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
David Brooks
#2. You must learn to control your impulses," he said. "A sword wants to be used. It wants to draw blood. That is why it was forged, and it has no other purpose in the world. If you do not control it, then it will control you.
John Connolly
#3. God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.
Robert Wright
#4. We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.
Stephane Simian
#5. Or society places a supreme value on control
hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses.
Jim Morrison
#6. I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.
Brandon Sanderson
#8. The undisciplined mind is like an elephant. If left to blunder around out of control, it will wreak havoc. But the harm and suffering we encounter as a result of failing to restrain the negative impulses of mind far exceed the damage a rampaging elephant can cause.
Dalai Lama XIV
#9. Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind, and with this control, obviously, every person may open his mind to the tramp thought impulses which are being released by other brains, or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice.
Napoleon Hill
#10. Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
Richard Dawkins
#11. we can develop willpower skills. It's more about strategy than grit or impulses. While we can't control what we think and feel, we can control what we do - which is where strategy comes into play.
Ted Spiker
#12. The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.
Sebastian Junger
#13. She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -
Robert Harris
#14. The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.
Brian Pinkerton
#15. If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.
John Steinbeck
#16. I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.
Marlon Brando
#17. Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok.
Lewis Engel
#19. If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.
Star Parker
#20. Science and Spirituality are two sides of the same coin and we cannot separate one from the other. Science is trying to find the truth in an objective or physical manner where as spirituality tries it subjectively or metaphysically.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#21. (Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#22. Unless you begin to control your temper, to forget yourself, to kill your wild impulses, to be kind, to learn what love is--you'll never last!...
Zane Grey
#23. Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
Mario Puzo
#24. Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
Caroline Knapp
#25. I spend my days on a strict schedule. It helps to tell my brain when to behave a certain way and helps to keep my impulses and fantasies under control.
Alessandra Torre
#26. Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.
Joe Budden
#27. Giving authority to others to control your lower-self impulses only serves to keep you in the lower self!
Heidi DuPree
#28. What happened, Bob explained to us now, although we didn't need telling, was that Jack Abbott was a psychopath. He couldn't bear being disrespected. His self-worth was too grandiose for that. He couldn't control his impulses. "When
Jon Ronson
#29. The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
#30. I've been a fan of Loretta Devine's, since I was a kid, from 'Waiting To Exhale,' and she's been in so many of my favorite movies and television shows.
Kevin Daniels
