Quotes About Self-control

Discipline wins over motivation anytime. For motivation we have to find inspiration around us to get things done and sometimes the inspiration is not enough. But, with discipline we get things done with or without inspiration.

Subjecting ourself to the self imposed discipline regimen is the surest way to increase the quality of our existence.

Don't eat your heart.

No one is free who is not master of himself.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

You know it's time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

We will never get anywhere in life without discipline, be it in the arts, business, athletics, or academics.

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

That's one of my problems. I never get angry quick enough. I never speak up when I am really mad. And then I feel silly bringing it up later.

according to Chanakya, being dependent on someone is most painful. Such a person can be compared to an animal. He has to act on someone elses orders. So, man should live life with strength.

Man will be fully a person, a per se subsistens and a per se operans, only in so far as the life of reason and liberty dominates that of the senses and passions in him; otherwise he will remain like the animal, a simple individual, the slave of events and circumstances, always led by something else, incapable of guiding himself; he will be only a part, without being able to aspire to the whole.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Of course, the pile grows and grows until I decide that I'm not going to buy a single book until I read my stack. Sometimes that works.

Do not blame your food because you have no appetite.

A mere knowledge of things can be had in a short enough time, but their spirit can only be acquired by centuries of training and self-control. Dominating nature from outside is a much simpler thing than making her your own in love's delight, which is a work of true genius. Your race has shown that genius, not by acquirements, but by creations; not by display of things, but by manifestation of its own inner being.

I have felt that you have been able to assimilate these secrets into your life, and the truth which lies in the beauty of all things has passed into your souls. A mere knowledge of things can be had in a short enough time, but their spirit can only be acquired by centuries of training and self-control.

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.