Self Control Quotes

“To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what’s right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.”
― David Jeremiah, Everything You Need

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Attention is crucial to the success of self-regulation, and indeed attentional processes often constitute the first step toward either success or failure at self-regulation. As mentioned, reduced self-monitoring is often a precipitating factor in self-regulation failure because it is quite easy to lose track of one’s status or quit regulating oneself when one cannot evaluate the distance between the current state and the goal state ... When people cease to attend to their own behavior, self-regulation typically deteriorates.”
― christopher peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“In an age of hard drinking Hornblower stood almost alone in his abstemiousness, from no conscientious motive but solely because he actively disliked the feeling of not having complete control of his judgment.”
― C.S. Forester, Beat to Quarters

“Anger is an unpleasant feeling. It is like a blazing flame that burns up our self-control and causes us to say and do things that we regret later. When someone is angry, we can see clearly that he or she is abiding in hell. Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“… when people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.”
― Dennis Prager, Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

“If you want financial success, you need the self-control to waste little time on fun things that don’t contribute to your personal and professional development. If you want happy and healthy children, you need the self-control to spend a great deal of time with them (thus depriving yourself of time to do what you want to do for yourself). If you want to be physically fit, you need the self-control to eat less fattening, less delicious foods and to exercise regularly.”
― Dennis Prager, Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

“If you can’t control your sexuality, you will have a hard time maintaining your sensuality.

One of my favorite quotes is by Robert Farrar Capon when he says we are given appetites, not to consume the world, but to taste its goodness.”
― Lebo Grand

“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The greatest riches in life are not obtained by what we chase but by what we choose not to chase, for it is the exercise of wisdom that makes one truly rich.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Even if the body wants, so long as your character is strong, you'll never go astray.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“Several studies have found that people are less likely to persist on difficult or unsolvable problems if they have already exerted self-control on a prior task, such as attempting to control their thoughts or emotions or resisting the temptation to eat chocolates and cookies. Some recent evidence suggests that the capacity for self-control is enhanced by positive emotions, and there is evidence that people in good moods persist longer (and perform better) at solving tasks.”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“Self-regulation is highly valued. Even if we find them a bit tedious, we admire people who stick to an exercise regimen. We certainly value people who do not express every negative emotion they experience, those who are “low maintenance” because they can control their reactions to disappointment and insecurity. We can count on the self-controlled person to keep her promises because she will not be distracted in the course of so doing.”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“Just as a muscle grows tired from exertion, the capacity for self-regulation becomes depleted after it is used. Also like a muscle, the capacity for self-regulation appears to grow stronger through regular exercise (after it recovers from the initial fatigue).”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“If parents can instill self-control in their children, they can achieve a powerful and important effect that will benefit their offspring for years to come. Indulgent parenting and an excessive concern with maximizing children’s self-esteem may, however, be detrimental to self-control, producing instead a personality that is weak, narcissistic, and self-indulgent.”
― christopher peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“I will leave it to your imperscrutable motivation on how much cake you want to eat.”
― Anna Bonazzi

“I will leave it to your imperscrutable motivation how much cake you want to eat.”
― Anna Bonazzi

“A perfect way of motivation is self control.”
― Baibhabi Nayak

“By all means, take your emotions along for the ride, but make sure you are driving the car.”
― Dondi Scumaci

“Your government is giant. How many people are in it, top to bottom? Are you going to change them? Can you change even one person, let alone all those hundreds or thousands? Actually, which one can you change? Yourself. Therefore, just practice.

So much complaining—did you control yourself, now you are looking for something else to control? And if you didn't control your own self, your own mind, then wanting to control everybody else, that's embarrassing! You are not qualified! We say, “They should do this!” “They should do that!” But what we should do ourselves, we don't know or we ignore it. Therefore, we are shameless, pointing the finger at everybody else and ignoring the smell coming from our own butt that we didn't clean nicely.

Like myself, here I have a control for my television. I have a television control but no control over my own mind! That's embarrassing!

You might think your own idea is wonderful, and everybody should follow your way. Actually, does your “my way” have any foundation? You should check. If you think you have a wonderful “my way,” then you need to get more educated. Study and check, carefully. Then you can see if your way is really solid or not before you start thinking you are a big hero just because you can blah blah blah. Anybody can blah! Even Odzer the cat can meow lots!

If you really think you are better than others, you should check carefully: what is that 'better?' If you are really better than them, then good. Stay that way. No reason to be proud. Your merit.

Don't lose it, boasting! Or if that 'better' is not really better, then examine your faults. Maybe what you thought was better was actually a mistake. Maybe they are the right way and you are the wrong way. Whatever your wrong way things are, then do confession and Vajrasattva and purify them. Slowly give up your negative things. If you find you are indeed better, you don't need to scream at everyone, “I am good! I am the goodest! The best!” If you find you have faults, you don't need to make a big announcement: “I am bad!” It is just your own business. Good things, keep. Bad things, slowly move away from them.”
― Gyatrul Rinpoche

“The three best friends of a spiritual seeker are self-study, self-control, and selfless service.”
― Mahayogi Buddh Puri

“Let the stress of this day disappear because you are in control.”
― Alexis Kirksey

“He [March Briscoe] had been so preoccupied with his inability to control himself, he hadn't realize that even when you controlled yourself, you couldn't control other people.”
― Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

“The only way to get what you ultimately want is to deny yourself short-term pleasures that interfere with your goal.”
― Dennis Prager, Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

“If you can’t control your sexuality, you will have a hard time maintaining your sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“Peace is justice in foreign relations; equality is justice in society; passion is justice in marriage; wisdom is justice in education; restraint is justice in behavior.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Most people think sensuality is about self indulgence, it’s actually more about self regulation.”
― Lebo Grand

“No matter how much energy you’ve expanded to fetter your true color, it leaks out eventually—usually during unpleasant moments”
― Said Hasyim

“Are your thoughts getting in the way? Telling you all the reasons you can’t do something or making you feel like you don’t have a choice? Or urging you to tell others what jerks they are? Time for these thoughts to get out of the way. When you are Thoughtfully Fit, your thoughts can lead the way to better actions.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Until you learn to control your emotions, you will never control your life.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire