Self Control Quotes

“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition.”
― Jack Whiteside Parsons, Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt

“The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before you know where you are you are on a gigantic book-binge. My brief case was full to bursting and I had bundles of books under both arms. I was bowed down by the weight of them.”
― R.T. Campbell, Bodies in a Bookshop

“You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.”
― Sharon Shinn, Summers at Castle Auburn

“Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have been hard-pressed to find one ultimately more damaging than calories-in/calories-out. That it reinforces what appears to be so obvious - obesity as the penalty for gluttony and sloth - is what makes it so alluring. But it's misleading and misconceived on so many levels that it's hard to imagine how it survived unscathed and virtually unchallenged for the last fifty years.

It has done incalculable harm. Not only is this thinking at least partly responsible for the ever-growing numbers of obese and overweight in the world - while directing attention away from the real reasons we get fat - but it has served to reinforce the perception that those who get fat have no one to blame but themselves. That eating less invariably fails as a cure for obesity is rarely perceived as the single most important reason to make us question our assumptions, as Hilde Bruch suggested half a century ago. Rather, it is taken as still more evidence that the overweight and obese are incapable of following a diet and eating in moderation. And it put the blame for their physical condition squarely on their behavior, which couldn't be further from the truth.”
― Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

“The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.”
― N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

“Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.”
― Raheel Farooq

“When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.”
― Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession

“I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.”
― Elise Valmorbida, The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories About Finding Love

“Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.”
― Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

“Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Its not all the hands capable for the reins of life”
― Marios Theodoratos

“Great men have great discipline.”
― Habeeb Akande

“Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. We can't control everything in life, but we can definitely control ourselves.”
― Jan Mckingley Hilado, Rich Real Radical: 40 Lessons from a Magna Cum Laude and a College Drop Out

“The breath I take, the thoughts I think, the emotions I develop, the blood I circulate, the neurons that are wired, everything is completely controlled and has a deep meaning behind it. My soul is enlightened.”
― Magith Noohukhan

“A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.”
― Jane Vella, Taking Learning to Task: Creative Strategies for Teaching Adults