Self Control Quotes - Page 17

• If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

  Napoleon Hill

  Exercise, Self, Neglect

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes you're overthinking, you convince yourself to get out of it and you're like, "Ah I shoulda did that!" You can't live life with regrets. Sometimes you just gotta indulge. But in the same breath, you gotta have restraint and self-control too.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Regret, Live Life, Self

  Source: thesource.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Mean, Self

  45 Copy quote

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  69 Copy quote

• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Powerful, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

  Dan Gable

  Inspirational, Sports, Wrestling

  Dan Gable (2017). “A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable”, p.128, University of Iowa Press

  206 Copy quote

  Show source

• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

  30 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Attitude, Wind

  23 Copy quote

• Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

  Augustus William Hare

  Motivational, Might, Fit

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Motivational, Joy, Elements

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Motivational, Temptation, Scream

  9 Copy quote

• Self-respect is the root of discipline

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Self, Roots, Discipline

  13 Copy quote

• Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

  James Allen

  Beautiful, Peace, Self

  James Allen (2012). “As A Man Thinketh And The Path Of Prosperity”, p.22, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

  26 Copy quote

  Show source