Self Control Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Self Control". There are currently 3 quotes in our collection about Self Control. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Self Control!
The best sayings about Self Control that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

  • What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

    Character   Mean   Men  
  • To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.

    Kindness   Taken   Self  
    Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.6, Harper Collins
  • To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

    Heart   Self   Games  
    James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.54
  • Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

    Heart   Suicidal   Self  
  • Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.

  • Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

    Anger   Self   Demand  
    Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.70, Bantam
  • I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.

    Self   Two   People  
    Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.
  • Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

    Life   Success   Self  
    Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.112, Lulu.com
  • Through discipline comes freedom.

  • I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

    Single   Hurt   Hate  
  • Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

  • You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

    Life   Change   Positive  
    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 12, 2014
  • 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.

    Art   Self   Let It Go  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”
  • Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.

  • The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.

    Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.18, Ballantine Books
  • Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

    "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
  • Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

  • There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

    Wrestling   Self   Tennis  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the romantic idea of the passions being this wonderful source of life or vitality that define you or your writing.

    Source: www.believermag.com
  • Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

    Fire   Self   Serenity  
  • A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

    Motivational   Men   Self  
  • We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

    Growing Up   Self   Iron  
    "Promised land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.
  • 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.

    Men   Self   Simplicity  
  • Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.

    Years   Self   Genius  
    Letter to Leon Goldensohn; quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007, March 10, 1946.
  • With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

  • Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

    Mean   Keys   Self  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.134, Cambridge University Press
  • Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

    Robert Burns (2009). “Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Self-respect is the root of discipline

    Self   Roots   Discipline  
  • Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

    Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社
Page of
We hope our collection of Self Control quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Self Control is constantly growing (today it includes 3 sayings from famous people about Self Control), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Self Control!