“Well, she could learn self control tomorrow. Today she wanted pizza.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
A lot of people cheat because of giving into temptation and not having self control... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without… — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
People who do drugs seem so weak and ignorant.They don't know the value of life, lack self control and will let their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never frown upon something just because you do not understand it. Your viewpoint will not always be the right one... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness,… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge… — Walter Mischel 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
“Renunciation and saiyam are two different things. Renunciation is where one gives up all marital ties, parental ties, financial ties and material possessions. What… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“A sudden, uncontrollable fury rose in him, and he cast around for something to smash. He snatched the whiskey bottle from the… — Jo Nesbø 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
Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . .… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an… — Kenyon Cox Copy Share Image
If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would… — C. Sommerville 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
Depression makes me feel pain depression makes me stupid depression makes me feel low depression makes me mad depression makes me sad… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“If there’s one lesson I learned early on during the decades I’ve spent in this business, it’s that of all the qualities… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully. "You must feel really good about… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
