Self Control Quotes
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
1890 Ram Mohan
Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.
3449 Bohdi Sanders
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.
1199 A.J. Darkholme
Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.
3124 Michael Bassey Johnson
Some women tend to bring insults into a little show you put forth to make them laugh, but they later accuse you of some abnormality if you keep them at arms length in order to regain your respect.
1873 A.J. Darkholme
They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.
1716 A.J. Darkholme
Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.
3320 Hark Herald Sarmiento
We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.
3825 Gustave Flaubert
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
3234 Robert E. Lee
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
1855 Ralph Alfred Habas
In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved.
3696 Sigrid Undset
God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
2837 Sri Chinmoy
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.
4354 Dale Carnegie
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
1560 Auliq Ice
Behind every successful person there is an out of control imagination.
4979 Auliq Ice
Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.
1885 Ram Mohan
Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else's hands.
2988 Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
4064 Lisa Bedrick
As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?
4785 Elizabeth George
God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.
4679 Auliq Ice
It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.
1447 Wilkie Collins
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
3784 Robert Morrissette
A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.
3152 Michael Bassey Johnson
A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.
3003 Alexei Maxim Russell
If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.
2052 Michelle Cruz-Rosado
A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.
4324 Charles F. Glassman
Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.
4216 Lisa Bedrick
Joy, I think, is the main fruit of the Spirit missing among Christians, and peace and self-control are the main fruits or qualities that seem to be missing among those who are not Christian.
2563 Raheel Farooq
Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.
4221 H.G. Wells
There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within-not without. It is each man's own affair.
4258 Jack Whiteside Parsons
Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition.
4592 Bryant McGill
When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.
4935 Elie Wiesel
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
3966 A.J. Darkholme
Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave.
4827 A.J. Darkholme
Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent the walls of rationalization – walls we need to protect our trust, confidence, understanding, and self-control.
4297 Thucydides
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
4108 Joseph J. Ellis
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
1757 Michael Bassey Johnson
Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.
4196 Pushpa Rana
The only self control I have when I am with you is that I am with you.
1946 N.T. Wright
The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.
2583 Marcel Proust
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.
3262 Jane Vella
A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.
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