Self Control Quotes
If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.
We can choose the type of thoughts we repeat in our mind. Nothing can force us to pick any memory, circumstance or relationship without our permission.
Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.
As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.
Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.
Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.
I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.
There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line, ’ and we showed up with an eraser?
If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.
It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.
With your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs under control, you can have as much as the richest man and be as peaceful as a Buddhist monk . You can experience inner-happiness and euphoric love.
I shouldn't have spoken like that.''People do, sometimes. People who've had less to contend with than you. We're not always in full control of our actions.
The battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several times each day.
The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.
Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.
A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.
A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying off what you bought yesterday.
The fact that rape threats are a thing says a lot about how rape isn't a lapse in self-control but often a tool to punish & control others.
