Self Control Quotes

A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.

Michelle D. Rosado

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22)

Bible

Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. We can't control everything in life, but we can definitely control ourselves.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Oscar Wilde

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

Kelly McGonigal

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Criss Jami

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat

Samuel Johnson

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrous potency.

William Shakespeare

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody

William Shakespeare

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Mahatma Gandhi

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

George Eliot