Self Control Quotes

“Stand,' he says against my lips.

'Xaden.' My heart thunders.

'I fucking need you, Violet. Right now. And I don't need anyone, so I'm not quite sure how to handle this feeling, but I'm giving it my best. And if you don't want this tonight, that's fine, but I'm going to need you to walk out that door right now, because if you don't, I'm going to have you naked on your back in the next two minutes.'

The intensity in his eyes and the vehemence of his words should frighten me, but they don't. Even if this man loses every ounce of his self-control, I know he'll never hurt me.

Not with his body, at least.

'Walk away or stay, but either way, I need you to stand up,' he begs.

'I think two minutes might be overestimating your skills with a corset.' I glance down at my armour.

He grins and lifts me from his lap.

My feet hit the floor. 'I'm timing you.'

'Is that-'

'One. Two.' I hold up my fingers. 'Three.'

He's on his feet in a heartbeat, and then his mouth is on mine, and I stop counting.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“The light of a lamp shines on and does not lose its radiance until it is extinguished. Will then the truth, justice and self-control which fuel you fail before your own end?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The results of learning from difficulties and obstacles are endurance and perseverance. Hardship, when combined with self-control, fosters strong soft skills.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“He let his mind go, following its apparently new logic: it came to a matter of self-control, something laughed at by himself and virtually all the people he knew in the universities. He personally associated it with being a Boy Scout. In something not unlike terror, he saw how the great truths had been made banal for the popular taste; how the oversimplifying of them was a danger to himself and others dedicated to the complex and subtle. The terror became real in him as he saw for a second time, with a clarity equivalent to physical sight, how much more difficult it was for an intelligent person to be saved.”
― Harry Sylvester, Dayspring

“People boast about having a gentle soul. I'll tell you right away, I am not gentle, I am the pinnacle of everything that is violent in nature. Yet nobody has ever seen me violent - you know why? Because gentleness is not the absence of violence, gentleness is the mastery over violence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Comfort foods, or any other habits, are good for you until they're bad.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“One of our greatest freedoms, is how we react to things.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse / A Poem for Every Night of the Year / A Poem for Every Day of the Year / Soul Fuel: A Daily Devotional

“I could not choose my desires, only whether to pursue them.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“She didn’t turn back. She knew his eyes were still on her, but she wouldn’t allow herself to look back. One more look at him and…
That would do it.
That would reverse everything.
That would change her mind.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Self-Discipline is the act of doing those things which ordinarily you won't but it's profitable to you at the long run.”
― Anufa Freeborn

“When you go to a job interview, nobody is really interested in your background, but on what you can actually do and how committed you are in applying disciple and self-control to learn, improve your results, and improve the relationships and communication inside the company where you work. Therefore, having a PhD but no capacity to empathize or work on new methodologies means nothing, which is why so many people with PhDs work as supermarket cashiers and bartenders, or can't even find a job. Prepare your Curriculum in such a way that anyone can see in the front page all the things you have done and studied on your own, and add to the information the topics you actually studied and can apply. Your employer doesn't care if you went to university for it or learned from a laptop while in pajamas during a Sunday morning. He cares about what you can do to improve his results. If he raises your salary after you make him rich, great, and if not, you can use that opportunity as leverage to a better opportunity with a much higher salary. But always remember that, as an employee, your purpose is not to get a salary but to make your boss rich. The salary is a bonus you get from that intention. If you want to become rich yourself, you have to start your own company and work as many hours as your boss did and employ people who aren't willing to make you rich because they only care about their own salary, people who in many cases have diplomas but can't do anything useful. You will be surprised with how many useless people there are in the world, which is why interviews can last weeks and months before someone is selected for a position.”
― Dan Desmarques

“There are plenty of things in life beyond your control, so you have to control those few things that you are able to”
― Frank D. Prestia

“Why say it, Mr. Cohen? Dammit? Why’d you say it! The pressure! You pinned me! We can’t move anymore!' thought Andrei.

Sometimes you must arrest the tongue to let your heart run free.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“One who tolerates little, has to tolerate the most.”
― Raheel Farooq

“It's important to learn self-control if you want to live a free life”
― Dr Purushothaman Kollam

“Isaac-you possess a maturity beyond your years. I tell you this not to puff your pride, but rather to increase your awareness of it. If the only way we respond to anger is with our fist, the balance of life will never be steady.”
― Sarah E. Ladd, The Thief of Lanwyn Manor

“It's as though human emotions have speed limits, and their tipping points vary depending on the person and which cog(nitive) gear is set: So typically, men go off the rails briefly when they're furious, whereas women, when they're frightened; but children while excited.”
― Criss Jami

“Moderation is the key to sustainable health.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Everything is to be enjoyed and there is no regret when enjoying after setting a limit for all enjoyments. Enjoyment within that limit is very blissful!”
― Sithi Fathima

“Gentleness is not the absence of violence, gentleness is the mastery over violence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Get to know the animal within,
World will know the human outside.
Resist no more the darkness within,
World will wake up to a dawn divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Controlled narcissism is a useful faculty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Self mastery is the greatest mastery.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Friends, we have to confront the reality that sometimes the problems in our lives do not come because “we're living in a broken world,” or “the enemy is attacking us.” Sometimes our problems are a direct result of us failing to exercise self-control. We are not living in obedience. Just as we, as loving parents, will not let our children compromise without consequences, neither will our loving heavenly Father. He is calling us back to a path that will bring peace.”
― Shaunti Feldhahn, Finding True Rest in a Busy Life

“[S]ometimes the problems in our lives do not come because “we're living in a broken world,” or “the enemy is attacking us.” Sometimes our problems are a direct result of us failing to exercise self-control. We are not living in obedience.”
― Shaunti Feldhahn, Finding True Rest in a Busy Life

“My Greatest lesson has been the ART OF SELF~CONTROL! I had to learn to maintain my composure in times of crisis of all sorts! Once I removed myself from the situation either physically and or mentally I was able to clear my mind! Thereafter, I could see the bigger picture and objectively determine how to remedy the situation! Therefore, I say CALM YOUR EMOTIONS, WHEN EMOTIONS ARE HIGH INTELLIGENCE IS LOW”
― Constance Delores Burrell, KYNG SUPA NOVA'S ADVENTURES OPERATION COVID-19: WITH FAMILY WE CAN CONQUER ALL

“When it's time,
be sober.
When it's love,
go over.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Allow yourself to be healed and renewed through detachment.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Some actions are irredeemable, but truth is, most are in the forgivable grey. Although choosing amnesty is more challenging than holding anger, the result of the rockier path is power over one's self and the ability to channel energy into will. Whether that determination becomes a healing force or a destructive one is up to the one who wields it.”
― Garrett Godsey, The Rivener

“मौन धारण गर। व्यर्थ बकवास नगर। आत्म प्रशंसाको त्याग गर। शान्ति नै महान् पुरुषहरूको उत्तम लक्षण हो। प्रत्येक कार्य शान्तिपूर्वक गर। आफ्ना इच्छाहरूलाई आफ्नो अधिन गर। कहिल्यै उत्तेजित नहोउ, यसबाट विचार शक्ति निर्बल र मन्द हुन जान्छ। जो शान्त, एकाग्र चित्तले प्रतिदिनका कार्यहरूलाई गर्दछ, त्यसलाई अल्पकालमा र अल्प परिश्रमबाट गर्न सकिन्छ र उसको सारा दिन आनन्दमा व्यतित हुन्छ। स-साना कुरामा उत्तेजित हुनाले मनको शान्ति भङ्ग भएर शरीरलाई बडो हानि पुग्छ र अल्प आयुमा मृत्यु हुन जान्छ।”
― Khaptad Baba, विचार विज्ञान [Bichar Bigyan]