Self-Control Quotes

• Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Battle
  • Defeat
  • Conquer

• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Self-Control

• Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Protection
  • Weapon
  • Cigars

• So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.

  

  Homer
  • People
  • Friend
  • Beauty

• Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Control
  • Matter
  • Solely

• A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Habit
  • Cultivate
  • Votary

• Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Control
  • Discipline

• The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Lose
  • Foods
  • Self-Control

• If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

  

  Antoine R. Ivins
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Self-Control

• All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Government
  • Belief
  • Moralities

• The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Power
  • Self-Control
  • Ruling

• If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Control
  • Exercise
  • Sure

• You'd be better served if you gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.

  

  Anne Stuart
  • Moment
  • Self-Control
  • Served

• My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lies
  • Exercise
  • Advocates

• I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Self-Control

• And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Control

• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Work
  • Weakness
  • Self-Control

• It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Control
  • Grief
  • Majority

• And here, the children who had learned that the experimenter was unreliable were more likely to eat the marshmallow before she came back, losing the opportunity to earn a second treat. Failing the marshmallow test—and being less successful in later life—may not be about lacking willpower. It could be a result of believing that adults are not dependable: that they can’t be trusted to keep their word, that they disappear for intervals of arbitrary length. Learning self-control is important, but it’s equally important to grow up in an environment where adults are consistently present and trustworthy.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Experimenter

• The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Joy
  • Masters
  • Passions

• Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Self-Control
  • Civil-resister

• Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

  

  Bono U2
  • Freedom
  • Suffered
  • Heroism

• The Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control .

  

  Charles H. Kraft
  • God
  • Love
  • Power

• I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Creating
  • Self-Control
  • Self-Discipline

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