Identity Quote by Willem Buiter

“Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“When we self-regulate well, we are better able to control the trajectory of our emotional lives and resulting actions based on our values and…

— Amy Leigh Mercree

People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.

— Chip Espinoza

Self expression is a function of responsibility.

— Werner Erhard

Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong.…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

— Carlos Castaneda

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

— Thucydides

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

— Brian Tracy

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

— Samuel Smiles

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

— B. F. Skinner

“Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.”

— Nathaniel Branden

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want…

— John C. Maxwell