#Self Control Quotes

“Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.”

“Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.”

“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

“Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.”

“Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.”

“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.”

“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.”

“I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.”

“O constancy, be strong upon my side,Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.”

“Great men should drink with harness on their throats.”

“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”

“Self-command is the main elegance.”

“Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.”

“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”

“Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.”

“Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.”

“To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)”

“Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.”

“Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.”

“Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.”

“The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.”

“Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.”

“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words.”

“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”

“The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.”

“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.”

“When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.”

“Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.”

“Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.”

“Fasting is the first principle of medicine.”

“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”

“Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.”

“Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.”

“Never anger made good guard for itself.”

“While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.”

“Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.”

“Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.”

“Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.”

“For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.”

“Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.”

“If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.”

“Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!”

“It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.”

“The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.”

“By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.”

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”

“You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.”