Top 100 Quotes About Self Control
#1. Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations
Gretchen Rubin
#2. Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
Auliq Ice
#3. A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#5. Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.
Jeff Cooper
#6. I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
Peggy Noonan
#7. I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
Tim Ferriss
#8. It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.
Napoleon Hill
#9. You don't need a weapon to protect yourself.
Bill Maher
#10. When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.
Deepak Chopra
#11. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.
James E. Faust
#12. Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
Kelly McGonigal
#14. If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.
Marshall McLuhan
#15. Either you must control your thoughts or the outside forces will control them and be warned that the outside forces usually consist of fears, worries and doubts.
Maddy Malhotra
#16. And strangely, even though he still stared at the store, I felt like I had more self-control then he did right then.
Jennifer Echols
#17. Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
Mahavira
#18. The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.
Alan Keyes
#19. We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.
Anthony Liccione
#20. Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.
A.J. Darkholme
#21. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.
Gary Hopkins
#22. This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend!
It doth control and also doth obey?
And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,
'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self?
What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r!
Aye: frailty, thy name
belike
is Force.
Ian Doescher
#23. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.
Rosellen Brown
#24. The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Herbert Spencer
#25. That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any length of time practised self-control and self-purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So
James Allen
#26. The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.
Bruce H. Lipton
#27. Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.
Napoleon Hill
#28. True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
Joshua Harris
#29. Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.
Orson Scott Card
#30. I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.
Dean Koontz
#31. To see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.
Richard Wright
#32. Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.
Gian Kumar
#33. Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose.
Miya Yamanouchi
#34. Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.
Kathy Freston
#35. Projecting an air of self-assurance will take you a long way.
Auliq Ice
#36. In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.
Madeleine L'Engle
#37. I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.
Sri Chinmoy
#38. January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#39. If you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others - choose your master.
Rick Julian
#40. A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.
T.F. Hodge
#41. There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.
Alan Keyes
#42. Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
Brian Tracy
#43. It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
Siri Hustvedt
#44. Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.
Matt Kindt
#45. Behind every successful person there is an out of control imagination.
Auliq Ice
#46. Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.
Lorii Myers
#47. The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values.
Doris Christopher
#48. When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.
Bryant McGill
#49. We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.
"Has a European feel" Susan said.
"That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"
Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said.
"Iron self-control" I said.
Robert B. Parker
#50. Baumeister's group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion. In
Daniel Kahneman
#51. in a nutshell, the key of the authentic Kriya Yoga: "Breath control is self-control. Breath mastery is self-mastery. Breathlessness stage is deathlessness stage.
P. Hariharananda
#52. Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city. - Proverbs 16:32
Gary Chapman
#53. Panic attacks are a lot like being drunk in some ways, you lose self-control. You cry for seemingly no reason. You deal with the hangover long into the next day.
Sara Barnard
#54. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#56. Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.
Toni Sorenson
#57. 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
#58. But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)
Sheldon B. Kopp
#59. By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#60. I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.
Max Lucado
#61. In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
Herbert Spencer
#62. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#63. Freedom doesn't come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control.
Beem Weeks
#64. When a person is discouraged, he loses self-control and patience
Sunday Adelaja
#65. We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#66. Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.
John Wooden
#67. It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.
Roy Hession
#68. I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.
Sylvester Stallone
#69. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.
A.J. Darkholme
#71. It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the entire time. All I could see was the way your nose would shrivel slightly when you laughed... The longing in your eyes for a love like that of the bride and groom.
Janna Sproul
#72. She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.
Gail Godwin
#73. For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#74. Self-control is a big deal in human performance. Getting better depends upon it. You cannot get better if it's not you who has to get better. You are the performer, period. You are the only thing you can control.
Henry Cloud
#76. The only way to take command of your life is to realize that you are never going to be in control of it.
Toni Sorenson
#77. I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.
Amy Grant
#78. Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
Sri Aurobindo
#79. Among the hard lessons which varying Fortune teaches to those whom she most neglects, there is none so useful as self-control.
Emmuska Orczy
#80. Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.
T.F. Hodge
#81. Some self-control, he continued his lesson for Sir Asshole. "Then the endorphins kicked in to the point where she could no longer engage her brain to make the decision to speak her safeword." He glanced
Kallypso Masters
#82. Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.
Mervyn Peake
#83. Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.
Frederick Lenz
#84. I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.
Joyce Meyer
#85. Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
James Q. Wilson
#86. Claire knew she was in control of her actions, she could choose to fight or complain. Her plan was for self-preservation until she was free. This had been a good old-fashioned thunderstorm, loud and boisterous but no real damage.
Aleatha Romig
#87. When you're comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.
Rachel Robins
#88. Your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
Anonymous
#90. Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense
or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?
Quentin R. Bufogle
#91. Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.
Roy Baumeister
#93. While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
Michael Dirda
#94. Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about ...
Catherine Weaver
#95. Striking a woman was something weak men did; men with little moral fibre and no self-control. It was a coward's response to a situation. And
Steven A. McKay
#96. I turn around and start walking, careful to keep my head down so no one sees the moment when the huge smile I was fighting finally breaks free. It takes every ounce of self-control not to look back and see if he's watching.
Kami Garcia
#97. My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
Ida Tarbell
#98. Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.
Balroop Singh
#99. Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.
James Allen
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