348 Quotes About Self-control

By all means, take your emotions along for the ride, but make sure you are driving the car.

In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.

Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be oneself without being a nuisance to someone else.

Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.

Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace.

But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent the walls of rationalization – walls we need to protect our trust, confidence, understanding, and self-control.

The best fighter is never angry.