Self Control Quotes

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

Some women tend to bring insults into a little show you put forth to make them laugh, but they later accuse you of some abnormality if you keep them at arms length in order to regain your respect.

They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

Great men have great discipline.

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Behind every successful person there is an out of control imagination.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else's hands.