Top 1200 Self-Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were they ever, the self-sufficient building blocks of society, exclusively responsible, praiseworthy, and blamable for their own destiny. They are deeply influenced by broad social and economic forces over which they have little control.

Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

First comes Self-confi­dence, that is the foundation. Then comes Self-satis­faction, it is like the wall. Next comes self-sacrifice, it is like the roof. Finally the house is complete and the Indweller is installed inside; that is Self-realiza­tion. It starts with Self-confidence and it ends with realizing the Self.

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer - thought on thought - fused with imagination and emotion until they become like steel cables - unbreakable. Habits are attitudes which grow from cobwebs into cables that control your everyday life. Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self image and in you. Self-discipline achieves goals. Self discipline is not 'doing without,' it is 'doing within.'

I don't know anyone who couldn't use a little boost in their energy and self-control.

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.

We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.

Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.

I cannot control what you bring into the theater when you see the film. I can't control what my parents bring in. I can't control what some random person on Twitter brings in to the theater. All I can control is the hour and 50 minutes that the movie lasts, and try to give it absolutely everything I can.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.

To be in complete control of the game in the fourth-quarter and just self-destruct, it's tough.

Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.

You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.