Self Control Quotes

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it.
That is by controlling your thoughts.
Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions.
It depends on inner conditions.

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

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Waiting is one of the great arts.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

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 temper.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

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

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

Those who can command themselves command others.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

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

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

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

I’m not looking for self-control.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

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

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

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

You need self-control in an out-of-control world.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things