348 Quotes About Self-control

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control.

...training your answers (winning the losses), as if you had never lost, that is 'something' rewarding.

Incivility is the social equivalent of CO2 and leads to a sort of cultural climate change that is very difficult to reverse. Anger, confusion, and a willingness to engage in bullying to get one's way; these are all results of the current hot house climate we find ourselves in.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.

Crying in public is like bleeding in public, they are both sad and equally messy. - On the Need of Self-restraint

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;not in silence, but restraint.