Quotes About Self-control

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Think before you speak. In the heat of the moment, it's easy to say something you'll later regret.

Is something or someone causing your blood pressure to rise? Do your best to stay calm, even if you feel like throwing a fit. Acting out won't help anything, and it might just put you in a bad light. And if you throw caution to the wind, you could end up regretting it in a big way. Remember work on staying calm and trusting that others aren't out to get you.

Power consists not in being able to strike another, but in being able to control oneself when anger arises.

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Strength of character lies in performing the drama of life with courage and confidence, practicing self-reflection and self-control under any circumstances.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

We must avoid letting our emotions override common sense.

Be strong enough to control your anger instead of letting it control you...

NO matter the situation, never let your emotions overcome your intelligence!

To handle yourself, use your head, To handle others, use your heart.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Self control leads to obedience and obedience leads to dedication.

By constant self discipline and self control. You can develop greatness of character.

You must draw on your willpower and self-control in order to face your problems realistically, on the one hand, while vanquishing your own anxieties on the other. Only then you can succeed!

A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own hands. Wisdom, justice, fortitude, self control, positive attitude, hard work, integrity and humility are virtues which makes one a person of character.

Respectable character is developed by consistency in self discipline and self control.

The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.

While others may break your heart, they cannot make you live in misery. You control your emotions and, while the hurt can be overwhelming, you have the ability to move on and live to love another day.

Exercise control over your thoughts and emotions. There's only one thing you can completely control in life and that's your thinking. Master your mind and the world is yours