As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion. — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
No matter how much someone gets you angry acting up helps there story — Tony Salameh Copy Share Image
“reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
God, grant me the serenity to accept the stupid people as they are, the courage to maintain self-control and the wisdom to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The conclusion is straightforward: self-control requires attention and effort. Another way of saying this is that controlling thoughts and behaviors is one… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Self Discipline is when you have enough time to rest and sleep but chose instead to stay awake and do things that… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“One act of conscience that prevents you from a wrongdoing when nobody is watching, is far more civilized than a thousand laws… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Girls can control their temptations but not their emotions. Guys can control their emotions but not their temptations... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To move on you have to decide whether you're going to let them control your life or whether you're going to control… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“If you allow yourself to have low standards, how are you supposed to ever achieve excellence? Exhibiting self-control is one of the… — Martin Meadows Copy Share Image
I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
“It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the… — Janna Sproul Copy Share Image
“Memorizing and repeating digits loosens the hold of System 2 on behavior, but of course cognitive load is not the only cause… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
“And when people exhaust their self-control, what they’re exhausting are the mental muscles needed to think creatively, to focus, to inhibit their… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“From his earliest years Cincinnatus, by some strange and happy chance comprehending his danger, carefully managed to conceal a certain peculiarity. He… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With a deep regret, I wiggled out from under him despite his sleepy protests and grabbed articles of clothing as I tiptoed… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric,… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
“When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“When you go to a job interview, nobody is really interested in your background, but on what you can actually do and… — Dan Desmarques Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
