Quotes About Self-control

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

There's no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

A human being is a deciding being.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.