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Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
— James Q. Wilson
Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.
— Mark Driscoll
We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
— Shannon L. Alder
The problem is the difference between want and need is a thin line called self-control.
— K. Bromberg
I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
— Watchman Nee
When you're comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.
— Rachel Robins
Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over
— Joyce Meyer
An important element of intelligence is self-control.
— Jesse Payne
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Don't let BRANDS rule your Mind!
— Mohith Agadi
A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.
— T.F. Hodge
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
— Calvin Coolidge
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
— Grenville Kleiser
To see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.
— Richard Wright
Sam: "You - you greatly overestimate my self-control."Grace: "I'm not looking for self-control. — Maggie Stiefvater
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
— Jane Austen
True sacrifice is merely self-control.
— David W. Stevens
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
— Herbert Spencer
It takes every fucking ounce of my self-control to say the next three words. 'Lead the way.
— Liz Reinhardt
Control your thoughts
— Unknown
I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.
— Elise Valmorbida
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin
— Benjamin Franklin
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.
— Andy Mineo
Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.
— Lisa Kleypas
Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges.
— Laura Vanderkam
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
— Elie Wiesel
The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
— Dorothy Nevill
Self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
— Jerry Bridges
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
We all have a dual nature,some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for an Urban Goddess
— Laney Zukerman
Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.
— Ralph Alfred Habas
I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.
— Amber Benson
You change the future by taking control of the present. Know how to use your minutes and hours.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
— Margaret Mead
If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.
— Richie Norton
Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.
— Toni Sorenson
Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.
— Travis Bradberry
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
— Augustus William Hare
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
— Max Lucado
Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me.
— Santosh Kalwar
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
— Elbert Hubbard
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
— Benjamin Disraeli
CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.
— James Allen
The sweetness of self-denial and self-control,
— Louisa May Alcott
According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.
— Jessica Valenti
Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
— Jessica White
We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.
— Anthony Liccione
Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself.
— Robert Black
I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.
— Stephanie Grant
Among the hard lessons which varying Fortune teaches to those whom she most neglects, there is none so useful as self-control.
— Emmuska Orczy
Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.
— Marilyn Suttle
Self-control is the only possible road to character development
— Dennis Prager
It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.
— John Howard Griffin
You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I am very happyBecause I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself. — Sri Chinmoy
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
— Tim Ferriss
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
— Joseph Campbell
As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.
— Jennifer Harrison
He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence.47
— William L. Shirer
As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table.
— Steven Pinker
The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.
— Idowu Koyenikan
Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.
— Frederick Lenz
For some reason, the strength and deadliness he keeps so easily leashed make him the most compelling man I've ever met. I envy his self-control.
— Amanda Bouchet
