Self Control Quotes - Page 3

• By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

  Jim Rohn

  Character, Greatness, Self

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• Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Self, Grace

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• Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

  Charles Kingsley

  Thanksgiving, Self, Excellence

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Town and Country Sermons: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Self, Wealth

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Respect, Self, Order

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• You must have discipline to have fun.

  Julia Child

  Teamwork, Fun, Discipline

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 15, 2014.

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• No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Labor, Severe

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• Control your destiny or somebody will.

  Jack Welch

  Life, Motivational, Destiny

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• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Self

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• 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.

  Richard Holloway

  Prayer, Children, Self

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• He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

  Confucius

  War, Confucianism, Conquer

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• The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Children, Intelligent

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• The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Government, People, Who Cares

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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

  Phyllis McGinley

  Giving, Advice, Gist

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  Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

  Denzel Washington

  Discipline, Goal, Achievement

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• Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

  Ted Malloch

  Flower, Self, Discipline

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

  George O'Neil

  Responsibility, Needs, Ethics

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• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

  Irving Babbitt

  Humility, Self, Needs

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• 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

  Arrogance, Culture, Hierarchy

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.152, Berghahn Books

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

  Plautus

  Men, Forever, Soul

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• Those who can command themselves command others.

  William Hazlitt

  Leadership, Command

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.144

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• Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

  Herbert Spencer

  Motivational, Men, Self

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.206

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• What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Quality

  "The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929".

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• It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

  Camryn Manheim

  Stupid, Men, Self

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