Top 100 Quotes About Self Control
#1. Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
Joseph J. Ellis
#2. I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.
Walter Mischel
#3. Self-control is mission-control! That is why some men are superior to their mates.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#4. The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
Kelly McGonigal
#5. If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.
Zach Hunter
#6. He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through, - to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#7. Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
Sai Baba
#8. Dominate the market with your products of self-control; no matter how many temptations produced by the devil, you will still overcome with profits of excellence!
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!
Napoleon Hill
#10. Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.
Claudia Gray
#11. It takes every fucking ounce of my self-control to say the next three words. 'Lead the way.
Liz Reinhardt
#13. An important element of intelligence is self-control.
Jesse Payne
#14. There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within
not without. It is each man's own affair.
H.G.Wells
#15. Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery.
Dan Ariely
#16. There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.
Jennifer Egan
#17. The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
Seneca The Younger
#19. It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#20. As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.
Jennifer Harrison
#21. By obedience and self-control come to your full stature; be in fact what you are in possibility; satisfy
George Santayana
#22. It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#23. I'm not tempted by things I've decided are off-limits, but once I've started something, I have trouble stopping. If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.
Gretchen Rubin
#24. When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
Tim Ferriss
#27. If you lose self-control everything will fall.
John Wooden
#28. It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.
Elvis Presley
#29. The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
Rumi
#30. Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.
Mark Driscoll
#31. The deepest show of love is when you surrender your mind, body and soul to me to use as I please, trusting that when I take you to the brink of my self-control, I'll bring you back more whole than before.
Scarlet Wolfe
#32. But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22
Nicholas Sparks
#33. The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#34. In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand.
Daniel Kahneman
#35. Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
Gina Carano
#36. When it comes to yourself, follow God's formula-
deny yourself of overindulgence (Proverbs 23:2 and 30:8),
examine yourself for any sinful habits (1 Corinthians 11:28),
% exercise yourself to godliness (1 Timothy 4:7), and
IK- develop self-control (Galatians 5:23).
Elizabeth George
#37. Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#38. Self-control is only courage under another form.
Samuel Smiles
#39. Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort,the diadem of thought.By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends.By the aid of animality,indolence,impurity,corruption,and confusion of thought a man descends.
James Allen
#40. Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.
David Livermore
#41. When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
Marcus Aurelius
#42. Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control.
Vladimir Nabokov
#43. Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.
Andy Mineo
#44. Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.
Donna Lynn Hope
#45. Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#46. Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. We can't control everything in life, but we can definitely control ourselves.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#47. Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.
Theodore Dalrymple
#48. Frustration is actually a self-served phenomenon, which happens due to no self-control or confidence.
Mohith Agadi
#49. The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right
Bertrand Russell
#50. For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness.
Kaoru Kurimoto
#51. No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#52. Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.
Bradford Winters
#53. Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
Robert Burns
#54. Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.
Lisa Kleypas
#55. Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope. Then get back to work! Subconsciously, we should be constantly asking ourselves this question: Do I need to freak out about this?
Ryan Holiday
#56. To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.
Robert Greene
#57. A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.
Henry Hazlitt
#58. When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.
David J. Lieberman
#59. Those who lack self-control lead disturbed and tumultuous lives; their crimes are balanced by their fears, and they are never at ease.
Seneca.
#60. The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.
Judith Perelman Rossner
#61. Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did ... people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.
Roy Baumeister
#62. I don't know anyone who couldn't use a little boost in their energy and self-control.
Travis Bradberry
#63. Build your life in self-control
purity, moderation in food and drink, and obedience to the will Divine. and you will have built well !!!!
Tanu Reshma B Singh
#64. Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift ... called self-control.
Lysa TerKeurst
#65. All that we know theologically must be "accessed" by our heart with all the joy, peace, self-control, love, durability, patience, and graciousness that it should produce in a human being.
Timothy Keller
#66. If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
Napoleon Hill
#68. Beneath her self-control, though he did not guess it, was the impatience of the keen brain watching a slower brain laboriously cover the ground it had already traversed in a flash.
Agatha Christie
#69. We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
Francis Chan
#70. The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.
Marion G. Romney
#72. Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#73. We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean
Malcolm Gladwell
#74. I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.
Napoleon Hill
#75. I garner what remains of my self-control and tell myself the truth: Not mine, not ever.
Tarryn Fisher
#76. He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.
John Irving
#77. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
Max Lucado
#78. I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. Chronic multitaskers "are suckers for irrelevancy," says Stanford communications professor Clifford Nass. "Everything distracts them." They can't ignore things, can't remember as well, and have weaker self-control.
Stephen L. Macknik
#80. I suppose it's a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.
Chuck Palahniuk
#81. God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Richard Holloway
#82. I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.
Louis Garrel
#83. The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.
Gautama Buddha
#84. More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
Dan Gable
#85. As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table.
Steven Pinker
#86. There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.
Graham Cooke
#87. So where should we start? It's helpful to begin with habits that most directly strengthen self-control; these habits serve as the Foundation for forming other good habits.
Gretchen Rubin
#88. Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control.
Chris Hodges
#89. Every time we linger in bad company whose insidious influence we know we cannot resist, every time we lie in bed when we ought to be up and praying, every time we read pornographic literature, every time we take a risk which strains our self-control, we are sowing, sowing, sowing to the flesh.
John R.W. Stott
#90. 28 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Anonymous
#91. [The five cardinal virtues of the Chinese are (1) humanity or benevolence; (2) uprightness of mind; (3) self-respect, self- control, or "proper feeling;" (4) wisdom; (5) sincerity or good faith.
Sun Tzu
#92. 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
#93. We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#94. It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting.
Paula Hawkins
#95. Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.
Rickson Gracie
#96. I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen
Stephenie Meyer
#97. This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
Nikola Tesla
#98. Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.
Doc Holliday
#100. The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
B.C. Forbes
