Self Controlled Quotes

#1. Nature battles against us sometimes, and it can be hard. Our souls seek a soul mate and our bodies seek to procreate. You need to be wise and self controlled and not put yourself in a place where nature might overcome your commonsense.

M.H. Strom

#2. Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.

Royal Robbins

#4. This could all end at any moment ... Therefore, be self-controlled.

Francis Chan

#5. There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

Publilius Syrus

#6. If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Plato

#7. But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#8. Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

John Sterling

#9. I've come to believe one of the reasons God designed marriage was to help us grow in holiness and character. We get to practice on a daily basis being humble, kind, sacrificial, self-controlled, and so much more.

Jody Hedlund

#10. Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited.

Bobby Henderson

#11. The purpose for your authority in the lives of your children is not to hold them under your power, but to empower them to be self-controlled people living freely under the authority of God.

Tedd Tripp

#12. Damyata datta dayadhvam, Be self-controlled, give, be compassionate.

Anonymous

#13. AS one instructs others,
So should one do oneself:
Only the self-controlled should restrain others.
Truly, it's hard to restrain oneself.

Gautama Buddha

#14. We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Aristotle.

#15. He who has let go of hatred
who treats all beings with kindness
and compassion, who is always serene,
unmoved by pain or pleasure,
free of the "I" and "mine,"
self-controlled, firm and patient,
his whole mind focused on me
that is the man I love best.

Anonymous

#16. The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#17. Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

Ethel Smyth

#18. It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

Sun Tzu

#19. Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

Alan W. Watts

#20. Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

#21. I run about four days per week and do some sort of hike or yoga/stretching on the other three. Kind of self-propelling my body and muscles forward in my own controlled chaos helps me find the ground a little bit easier on the daily.

Madi Diaz

#22. Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Luke Rhinehart

#23. They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

Tom Clancy

#24. Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Edith Hamilton

#25. New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

Douglas Rushkoff

#26. Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Benjamin Disraeli

#27. Any computer that developed real consciousness was immediately identified by the Genesis subroutine and destroyed. It had been that way since the WikiWars a century ago, when Wikipedia became self-aware and began vengefully reediting its contributors with remote-controlled heavy weaponry.

Michael Rubens

#28. Self-control is not needed because the body is evil - the truth is just the opposite. The body should be controlled with honor because it is worthy of honor.

Pope John Paul II

#29. The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.

Tad R. Callister

#30. The breath I take, the thoughts I think, the emotions I develop, the blood I circulate, the neurons that are wired, everything is completely controlled and has a deep meaning behind it. My soul is enlightened.

Magith Noohukhan

#31. A memoir is a work of sustained narrative prose controlled by an idea of the self under obligation to lift from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform the event, deliver wisdom.

David Shields

#32. Autonomous motivation involves behaving with a full sense of volition and choice," they write, "whereas controlled motivation involves behaving with the experience of pressure and demand toward specific outcomes that comes from forces perceived to be external to the self.

Daniel H. Pink

#33. He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value others? If he no longer values others, He is abandoned. He has nothing left!

Thomas Merton

#34. Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly collecting yourself and using controlled breathing you remain afloat with ease.

Alaric Hutchinson

#35. In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with confined strictures, the dance class is a safe place in which the women have choices and can improve their self-concept.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#36. With 70,000 thoughts a day and 95% of our activity controlled by the subconscious mind, no wonder that it feels as though we are asleep most of the time. To awake, we need to train Self-Remembering and Mindfulness.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#37. It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.

Frederick Lenz

#38. When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

Bryant McGill

#39. If you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others - choose your master.

Rick Julian

#40. 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