Self-Control Quotes

142 quotes by 111 authors

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content,… — Charles Kingsley
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid… — Camryn Manheim
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. — Marya Mannes
Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's… — Ricky Martin
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have… — Joyce Meyer
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
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. — Zadie Smith
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
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. — William Butler Yeats
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. — Oscar Wilde
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow — Rainer Maria Rilke
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. — Stephen Covey
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings — David Sedaris
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
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. — Isabel Allende
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and… — Theodore Isaac Rubin

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