Self Control Quotes - Page 15

• The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Teaching, Home

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• Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago.

  Frans de Waal

  Believe, Self, Years

  "Morals Without God?". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

  David Brooks

  Self, Littles, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Abraham Low

  Self, Self Respect, Sense Of Self

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• There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

  Rafael Nadal

  Wrestling, Self, Tennis

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's going on there is that the self-control areas of the brain are finally developed enough to be able to stop yourself from relapsing or just continuing. There is a maturational aspect to it as well.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Thinking, Self, Addiction

  Source: sojo.net

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• Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

  Booker T. Washington

  Self, Patient, Calm

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, University of Illinois Press

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• You need self-control in an out-of-control world.

  James C. Collins

  Self, Needs, World

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• We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Self, People

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• He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Doctors

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.286, Jaico Publishing House

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Self, Matter

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.292, Courier Corporation

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• The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Self, Acting, Amplify

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound.

  Ella Henderson

  Self, Empowering, Sound

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• Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.

  David Livermore

  Exercise, Intelligent, Self

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.

  Bradford Winters

  Leadership, Powerful, Exercise

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• The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

  George F. Kennan

  Loss, Self, Judging

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• There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is "to move.

  Daniel Goleman

  Moving, Emotional, Skills

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.137, Bantam

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• When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Doe, Matter

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• 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.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Self, Achievement

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Let It Go

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Men, Self

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Character, Self

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.

  Richard Thaler

  Retirement, Self, Saving

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• ‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

  Joshua Harris

  True Love, Kissing, Love Is

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.20, Multnomah

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