Self Control Quotes

297 quotes by 251 authors

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. — W. Clement Stone
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid… — Harvey Weinstein
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. — Mae West
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and… — Oscar Wilde
My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads,… — Marya Hornbacher
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said. "That sounds terrific" I… — Robert B. Parker
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. — Jane Austen
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. — James Allen
But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly. — Keith Ablow
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel
So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to… — Homer
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession… — Agatha Christie
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the… — D. A. Carson
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. — Stephen Covey
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own… — Wilkie Collins
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. — Claudia Gray
no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the… — Abraham Lincoln

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