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Quotes About Self-control

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.
~ Raheem DeVaughn
I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.
~ Madonna Ciccone
The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
~ Dalai Lama
Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.
~ Steve Burns
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
~ Criss Jami
Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.
~ Michael Nutter
Patience means self-suffering.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.
~ May Sarton
Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
~ Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.
~ Ryan Seacrest
Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.
~ Mila Kunis
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
~ Marcus Eremita
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who can have patience can have what he will.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control.
~ Auliq Ice
I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.
~ Kristen Ashley, Creed
A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer.
~ Paul Aurandt Jr.
sometimes is good to be in patience, it can be mean understand, sometimes patience can describe as sacrifice, but everytime it hurting ourself
~ Tun Teja
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
~ Dalai Lama
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
~ Max Lucado
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson