“If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Your emotions should not be driven by the situation, but you are supposed to create that situation by using your emotions. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Don't look now, but that's my ex over there." Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life. — Antoine R. Ivins Copy Share Image
“The basic idea here is that for most people will power is a limited resource: if we spend lots of energy controlling… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control… — Doc Holliday Copy Share Image
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Trying out a bit of weed, a knock of crack, a quick cigarrette, a tot of brandy, a sip of larger or… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include personal government will only guarantee our mediocrity.” — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
