quotes about Self Control
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
-- Charles Darwin -
The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
-- Dorothy NevillSource : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”
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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
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Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
-- James AllenSource : James Allen (2014). “As You Think - A New Thought Classic for Today's Woman”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc
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There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
-- Jim Prentice -
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Waiting is one of the great arts.
-- Margery AllinghamSource : Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.35, Ipso Books
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As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
-- Millicent FenwickSource : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
-- ThucydidesSource : "History of the Peloponnesian War".
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
-- W. Clement Stone -
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.
-- Wilkie CollinsSource : Wilkie Collins (2008). “The Woman in White”, p.396, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Those who can command themselves command others.
-- William Hazlitt -
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
-- George O'Neil -
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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
-- Abraham Low