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Quotes About Self-control

Man can be a master of his mind.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Be control of your mind.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm going to tell you a secret:You don't have to believe every thought that pops into your head.
~ B. Dave Walters
Don't let people get the best of you they say what they want but don't let that distract you from accomplishing your goals.
~ Alcurtis Turner
Guard your heart against anger.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Guard your heart against anger, bitterness, envy, jealousy….!
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices?
~ Tom Cunningham
It is our non negotiable responsibility to always stay positive, no matter what! The only thing that can make you negative is the thing you allow to make you negative! Think well and stay positive!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.
~ Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Martial Arts does not teach you how to fight, it teaches you why not to.
~ Lakshya Bharadwaj
You live with your thoughts-so be careful what they are.
~ Eva Arrington
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
~ Rita Mae Brown
My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.
~ Nipsey Hussle
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
~ John Locke
You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.
~ Helio Gracie
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
~ Thiruvalluvar
You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.
~ Swami Satchidananda
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
~ Vinoba Bhave
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
~ Marcus Aurelius
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
~ William Howard Taft
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
~ Elie Wiesel
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda