Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!
If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Waiting is one of the great arts.
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.
You need self-control in an out-of-control world.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.
I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don’t even pay attention to things you don’t.
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.