Self-respect takes self-control, self-control takes practice, and practice takes determination. — Martin Stubbs Copy Share Image
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal. — Zach Hunter Copy Share Image
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I can do whatever I want, as long as I don't hurt Anything or Anyone, especially Myself! — Rey Mellomida Copy Share Image
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
“To take back your power in any given situation, focus on the things you can control. The thoughts you choose to think… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Letting go doesn't mean you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you have control over is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein as granting authority to others. It might as well be saying, 'Perhaps… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You must draw on your willpower and self-control in order to face your problems realistically, on the one hand, while vanquishing your… — Alina Khadgi Copy Share Image
It Is Our Willing Acquiescence To These Outer Demands That Imprisons. Free Yourself Today. Take Control Of Your Thoughts... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is best to hold your tongue and walk away so bitterness will not depart from your lips and defile you.” — VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis Copy Share Image
Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The blacksmith should be the one to feel humiliated, for he was the dunce who chose to give up his self-control. What… — Kristin Cashore 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
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
In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity…when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Boxing is a sport of self-control. You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
“I know that if I said today, "How many of you would like to have me pray for you to have self… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Ive learned that no matter how thin you are, people still have something to say. Ive learned that its taking me a… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Be strong enough to control your anger instead of letting it control you... — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The wise treat horniness like a hiccup; the foolish, like an asthma attack.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
