Best Self Control Quotes

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her legs for his entry.

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience – a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

I practice self-control and staying active. Running round the kitchen keeps me moving.

Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy.

Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.

Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

If guys practiced self-control, ‘modesty’ wouldn’t be such a huge deal.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

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.

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn’t just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God’s work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience no feeling of self achievement. I now know myself to be a part of the infinite cosmos, not separate from other souls or God. My illusory self is dead; the real self controls the garment of clay and uses it for God’s work.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he’s offering, perhaps, a critique of the romantic idea of the passions being this wonderful source of life or vitality that define you or your writing.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn’t restrain myself and spoke my mind.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.