Quotes About Self-control

Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.

Karate training will make you strong and confident, but restraint will make you respected

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ... it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

Don't blame the situation, don't blame other people

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn't.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

When I got my success I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.