Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents,… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Once you show your ass, it may be hard for people to look you in the face — Aimee Vernon Copy Share Image
“Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission… — George O'Neil Copy Share Image
Be the person behind the wheel of your life and let those who judge you become the passengers in your journey. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The strong is not the one who overcomes people by his strength, but the one who controls himself while in anger. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was that guy that, when the police would come, I would continue to wild out. I had no self-control. — Sisqo Copy Share Image
The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace,… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.' — Joe Hyams Copy Share Image
My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery,… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“It amused him sometimes to consider that his friends, because he had a face which did not express his feelings very vividly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self… — Tony Rock Copy Share Image
We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
