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“Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.”

Self Buddhism Keys Balance Self Control

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.”

Way Self Buddhism Balance Easier Letting Go Gains Angry Jealous Self Control New Ways Torment Life Balance Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.”

Men Mind Self Body Wise He Man Supreme Controlled Steady Self Control

Author:Publilius Syrus

“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.”

Knows Men Self Reason Feelings Light Desire Force Born Powerful Enemy Anger Blow Superiors Heat Internals Betray Self Control Inferiors Uncontrollable

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.”

Want Believe Self Hard Joy Choices Practice Achieve Habit Discipline Self Control Beginning Of Life Disciplined Life

Author:John C. Maxwell

“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.”

Inspirational Self Sports Teach Pride Skills Wrestling Self Control Inspirational Sports Wrestler Motivational Wrestling

Book:A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable

Source: A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable

“Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.”

Mind Self Silence Spokes Confession Self Control

Book:Operation Shylock: A Confession

Source: Operation Shylock: A Confession

“Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.”

Should Doe Self Helping Sports Teach Self Esteem Discipline Esteem Winner Self Control Success In Life Self Discipline Trophies Discipline And Self Control

Author:Roy Baumeister

“Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.”

“The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.”

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it.”

Ifs Self Lost Teach Dad Discipline Skills My Dad Mma Attributes Self Control Life Skills Taekwondo

Author:Anthony Pettis

“Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over”

Self Spirit Fall Fruit Remove Self Control Fruits Of The Spirit Bookends

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.”

Needs Self Authority Self Control Veins

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.”

Self Father Ability Clear Son Judgment Conscience Critics Ease Motive Self Control Discernment Good Judgment Clear Conscience

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.”

Humans Heart Self Games Walks Human Nature Ought Foolish Setting Settings Settling Disappointed Throwing Expecting Tides Self Control Enthusiastic

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.”

People Thinking Self Whole Helping Simple Technique Endless Helpful Self Control Willpower Nudge

Author:Walter Mischel

“According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.”

Men Self Movement Self Control Virginity

Book:The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

“Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills Over time, [meditators'] brains become finely tuned willpower machines.”

Self Asks Brain Skills Machines Wide Range Get Better Self Control Willpower Meditating It Gets Better

Author:Kelly McGonigal

“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the submission to discipline and the rigor of self-control.”

Art Made Ends Self Spirit Individual Discipline Tradition Contempt Reverence Self Control Submission Exaltation Rigor

Author:Kenyon Cox

“Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.”

“Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.”

Self Victory Disappointment Endurance Live By Self Control Compensation

Book:Lives of Wives

Source: Lives of Wives

“Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.”

May Self Break Add Track Bars Satan Self Control Breaking Down Bad Times Sad Times

Author:Cole Porter

“Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.”

Years Self Genius Thousand Limits Twelve Self Control Thousand Years

Author:Wilhelm Frick

“The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.”

Self Law Answers Crime Gun Self Control Gun Control Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:Alan Keyes

“There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.”

Self Government Ability Liberty Moral Discipline Self Control Self Discipline Grounded Self-government Discipline And Self Control

Author:Alan Keyes

“It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.”

Self Accepting Logic Extraordinary Self Control Smarter

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.”

Want Giving Different Self Helping Pleasure Greater Habit Healthy Treats Rewards Self Control Justified Vitality Indulgence Boost Healthy Habits Small Pleasures

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.”

Self Levels Brain Impossible Normal Factors Self Control Willpower Upbringing

Book:Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

Source: Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

“Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.”

Source: Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

“A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.”

Men Self Quality Essentials Shots Essence Good Man Good People Self Control Marksman Marksmanship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.”

Years Self Weapons Capacity Protection Fifty Combat Self Control Cigar

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.”

Persons Self Philosophy Care Able Abandon Self Control Tantra Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.”

Mind Looks Self Levels Teacher Students Emotional Buddhism Higher Essentials Degrees Buddhist Self Control Etiquette Higher Level Coldness Emotional Control

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.”

Self Success Levels Attention Careers Practice Buddhism Self Control

Author:Frederick Lenz