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60+ Self Control Quotes

Self control is important for every human being. To achieve success in life one must obtain self control. Self control keeps mistakes a side while it makes the path of glory short. This is inspiring collection of 60+ Self Control quotes and saying.


Man cannot live without self-control. - Isaac Singer
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. - Elie Wiesel
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. - Louis XIV
No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus
Self-control is one mark of a mature person. - Joseph B. Wirthlin
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body. - Joseph B. Wirthlin
Learning to control your reactions, saves you a lot of explaining, regretting, and apologizing. - Remez Sasson
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control. - Auliq Ice
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. - Marcus Aurelius
Self-command is the main elegance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To rule self and subdue our passions is the more praiseworthy because so few know how to do it. - Guiana
Self control is the power within you that holds the reins of anger, intolerance and impulsiveness. - Remez Sasson
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. - Tao Te Ching
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. - Gustave Flaubert
Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world. - Unknown
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. - George Bernard Shaw
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. - Napoleon Hill
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. - Josh Billings
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. - Michel de Montaigne
Even a little self control can save you a lot of time, energy and errors. - Unknown
He who has power over himself has power over his greatest enemy. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself. - Jim Whittaker
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. - George Bernard Shaw
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. - Jane Austen
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. - Thucydides
Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion. - William Somerset Maugham
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. - Mahatma Gandhi
You decide your own level of involvement. - Chuck Palahniuk
A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment. - Michelle D. Rosado
A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character. - Henry Hazlitt
If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future. - Germany Kent
Emotional content without self control burns the soul. Self control without emotional content is yet untested. - Toba Beta
Our thoughts are all-powerful. How many of us can really control them? - Dada J. P. Vaswani
To rule your mind, control your gates. To rule your world, take hold of its gates. - Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu
Self-mastery epitomizes the height a person’s of measurable success. - Kilroy J. Oldster
If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you. - Florence Scovel Shinn
The best kind of self-control is to avoid situations that require self-control. - Paul J. Silvia
In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption. - Abhijit Naskar
Fortunately and unfortunately, I have found out the importance of self-control and learned it the hard way. - Noob Loop
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
Without delayed gratification,there is no self- control. - Sunday Adelaja
One cannot uphold, and withstand other's conduct if it has a lack of self-control. - Ehsan Sehgal
If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others. - Miya Yamanouchi
The greatest conquest is self –control. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Projecting an air of self-assurance will take you a long way. - Auliq Ice
The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you. - Hyrum W. Smith
It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults. - Auliq Ice
Woman wants control, man self-control . - Immanuel Kant
If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control. - Anonymous
Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. - Auliq Ice
There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair. - H.G. Wells
Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control. - Donna Lynn Hope
Conquer yourself; the world is you! - Raheel Farooq
The only self control I have when I am with you is that I am with you. - Pushpa Rana
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind. - Philip Roth
Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead. - Balroop Singh
The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. - Rumi
Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction. - Lorii Myers
Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. - Jan Mckingley Hilado
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