Quotes about Self control (288 quotes)

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. Votes: 7

Franz Kafka

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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Votes: 6

Grenville Kleiser

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. Votes: 6

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. Votes: 5

Max Lucado

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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. Votes: 5

John Milton

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Votes: 5

Marcus Aurelius

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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Votes: 5

Charles Darwin

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Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. Votes: 5

Gina Carano

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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Votes: 5

Jim Rohn

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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 have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. Votes: 5

Benjamin Franklin

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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. Votes: 4

Robert Burns

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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. Votes: 4

James Russell Lowell

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. Votes: 4

Michel de Montaigne

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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. Votes: 4

Mae West

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No man is free who is not master of himself. Votes: 4

Epictetus

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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. Votes: 4

W. Clement Stone

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As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. Votes: 4

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect. Votes: 4

Abraham Low

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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself. Votes: 4

Thomas a Kempis

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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. Votes: 4

Napoleon Hill

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More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride. Votes: 4

Dan Gable

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Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless. Votes: 4

Rickson Gracie

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. Votes: 4

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. Votes: 4

Edward Gibbon

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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. Votes: 4

Thucydides

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Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace. Votes: 4

Rumi

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Votes: 4

Elie Wiesel

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Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control. Votes: 4

Bradford Winters

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Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control... Votes: 4

Cole Porter

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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. Votes: 4

Mahatma Gandhi

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The greatest strength are rooted in love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Votes: 3

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control. Votes: 3

Andy Mineo

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As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control. Votes: 3

Ashleigh Brilliant

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There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. Votes: 3

Graham Cooke

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The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love. Votes: 3

Marion G. Romney

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. Votes: 3

Dale Carnegie

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Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation. Votes: 3

Frederick Lenz

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Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation. Votes: 3

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control. Votes: 3

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . . Votes: 3

Catherine Weaver

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It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport. Votes: 3

Elvis Presley

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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. Votes: 3

Sri Aurobindo

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The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right Votes: 3

Bertrand Russell

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I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control. Votes: 3

Amy Grant

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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it. Votes: 3

Anthony Pettis

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Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. Votes: 3

Napoleon Hill

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Don't look now, but that's my ex over there." Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked. "Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control? Votes: 3

Gena Showalter

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I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control. Votes: 3

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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I hate exercising self-control. Votes: 2

Kate Upton

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Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand. Votes: 2

Kathy Freston

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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting. Votes: 2

Mahavira

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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence. Votes: 2

Mahavira

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Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. Votes: 2

John Bytheway

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Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. Votes: 2

Ron Perlman

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I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. Votes: 2

W. C. Fields

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My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine. Votes: 2

Kevin Hart

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Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever. Votes: 2

J. A. Konrath

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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. Votes: 2

Zadie Smith

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The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. Votes: 2

Ginny Brown-Waite

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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. Votes: 2

Calvin Coolidge

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I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. Votes: 2

Tim Ferriss

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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body. Votes: 2

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. Votes: 2

Bruno Bettelheim

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Sendhil Mullainathan

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I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest. Votes: 2

Will Self

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Self-control is the only possible road to character development Votes: 1

Dennis Prager

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Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential. Votes: 1

John Wooden

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The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it. Votes: 1

Dorothy Nevill

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Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline. Votes: 1

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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Everything big, once started little. Use self-control to become an excellent person at what you want. Discipline yourself. Work to build excellent habits. Develop excellent skills and abilities. Doing this over time, insures you will grow at what you want for top success. Votes: 1

Mark F. LaMoure

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Self-control is spiritual. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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I'm not looking for self-control. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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Woman wants control, man self-control . Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant

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The first key to leadership is self-control. Votes: 0

Jack Weatherford

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The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control Votes: 0

Watchman Nee

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If you lose self-control everything will fall. Votes: 0

John Wooden

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Self-control is only courage under another form. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles

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You need self-control in an out-of-control world. Votes: 0

James C. Collins

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Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control! Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction. Votes: 0

Lorii Myers

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The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control. Votes: 0

Maximilian Bircher-Benner

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The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort. Votes: 0

Daniel Kahneman

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Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures. Votes: 0

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control. Votes: 0

Chris Hodges

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Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life. Votes: 0

Cheri Huber

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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. Votes: 0

James Allen

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Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom. Votes: 0

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz

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Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal. Votes: 0

Zach Hunter

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Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort Votes: 0

Daniel Goleman

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Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control. Votes: 0

Ted Malloch

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Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control. Votes: 0

Joe Hyams

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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse. Votes: 0

Elise Valmorbida

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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives Votes: 0

Vernon Howard

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I practice self-control and staying active. Running round the kitchen keeps me moving. Votes: 0

Lorena Garcia

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Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control. Votes: 0

David Livermore

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Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control. Votes: 0

Mark Driscoll

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self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion... Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man. Votes: 0

Herbert Spencer

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But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly. Votes: 0

Keith Ablow

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We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control. Votes: 0

Francis Chan

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Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind. Votes: 0

Philip Roth

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The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. Votes: 0

Alan Keyes

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Sam: "You"you greatly overestimate my self-control." Grace: "I'm not looking for self-control. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. Votes: 0

Thucydides

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character. Votes: 0

Henry Hazlitt

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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. Votes: 0

Herbert Spencer

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According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual. Votes: 0

Jessica Valenti

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Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life. Votes: 0

Antoine R. Ivins

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I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem. Votes: 0

Kanye West

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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. Votes: 0

Robert Greene

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I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control. Votes: 0

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. Votes: 0

James Q. Wilson

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It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention. Votes: 0

Kelly McGonigal

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Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education. Votes: 0

Sai Baba

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High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you. Votes: 0

Tony Robbins

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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles

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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of. Votes: 0

Seth

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Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you. Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life. Votes: 0

Amber Benson

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Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around. Votes: 0

Paramahansa Yogananda

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As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control. Votes: 0

Jennifer Harrison

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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being. Votes: 0

Lord Acton

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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem. Votes: 0

David Emerald Womeldorff

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There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control. Votes: 0

Jeffrey R. Holland

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There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control. Votes: 0

Rafael Nadal

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Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with. Votes: 0

Joseph J. Ellis

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Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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Self-compassion-being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure-is associated with more motivation and better self-control. Votes: 0

Kelly McGonigal

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If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself! Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit. Votes: 0

Jerry Bridges

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Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. Votes: 0

Steven Pinker

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I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control? Votes: 0

Laurell K. Hamilton

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I suppose itâs comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. Votes: 0

Derek R. Audette

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When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health. Votes: 0

David J. Lieberman

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Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. Votes: 0

Daniel Goleman

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Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control. Votes: 0

Steven Levenkron

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Votes: 0

Galatians 5:22-23

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More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride. Votes: 0

Dan Gable

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Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds. Votes: 0

Karuna Cayton

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There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. Votes: 0

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control. Votes: 0

Anonymous

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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves. Votes: 0

Watchman Nee

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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. Votes: 0

Claudia Gray

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Love begets joy.Joy begets peace.Peace begets patience.Patience begets kindness.Kindness begets goodness.Goodness begets faithfulness.Faithfulness begets gentleness.Gentleness begets self-control. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later. Votes: 0

Nhat Hanh

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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite. Votes: 0

Booker T. Washington

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Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years. Votes: 0

Wilhelm Frick

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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. Votes: 0

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those. Votes: 0

Roy Baumeister

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Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline. Votes: 0

Jessica White

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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied. Votes: 0

John Cassian

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Dominate the market with your products of self-control; no matter how many temptations produced by the devil, you will still overcome with profits of excellence! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul. Votes: 0

Alice Duer Miller

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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home. Votes: 0

Janet Fitch

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Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy. Votes: 0

Linda S. Reeves

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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen. Votes: 0

Adam Mansbach

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It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film. Votes: 0

Ryan Gosling

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I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved. Votes: 0

Christopher Lee

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Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God. Votes: 0

Clement of Alexandria

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The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills âself-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter mostâ are the foundation for self-control. Votes: 0

Kelly McGonigal

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It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control. Votes: 0

Sendhil Mullainathan

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money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth. Votes: 0

Olivia Mellan

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Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives. Votes: 0

Lorii Myers

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Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them. Votes: 0

Ray Kurzweil

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Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. Votes: 0

Norman Lindsay

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There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone," I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control. Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me. Votes: 0

Doc Holliday

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A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man. Votes: 0

Theodore Roosevelt

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Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses. Votes: 0

Alan Valentine

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I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22 Votes: 0

Nicholas Sparks

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Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky

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Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing. Votes: 0

Jeff Cooper

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When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control. Votes: 0

Julie Burchill

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self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness. Votes: 0

Sarah Josepha Hale

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If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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"True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid. Votes: 0

Joshua Harris

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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 and having no self-control. Votes: 0

Camryn Manheim

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Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance. Votes: 0

Laura Riding

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I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them. Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad

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His love is the soil in which all the fruits of the Spirit grow. When our roots abide there, then joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control grow naturally in our hearts." Votes: 0

J.D. Greear

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How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension. Votes: 0

Pope Clement I

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The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience. Votes: 0

Anthony the Great

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The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs. Votes: 0

George F. Kennan

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When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple. Votes: 0

Walter Mischel

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The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses. Votes: 0

Brian Pinkerton

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Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender. Votes: 0

Lewis B. Smedes

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Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man. Votes: 0

Mervyn Peake

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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. Votes: 0

James Buchan

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Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control. Votes: 0

Richard Thaler

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Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives. Votes: 0

James Heckman

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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. Votes: 0

Irving Babbitt

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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control. Votes: 0

Tim Ferriss

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There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right. Votes: 0

Alan Keyes

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Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it. Votes: 0

John Wooden

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There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to. Votes: 0

Jennifer Egan

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The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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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, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Votes: 0

Charles Kingsley

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Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz

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No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL. Votes: 0

Melvin J. Ballard

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Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills Over time, [meditators'] brains become finely tuned willpower machines. Votes: 0

Kelly McGonigal

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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making. Votes: 0

B. C. Forbes

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