Self-control Quotes - page 3

The guerrilla fighter, as a person conscious of a role in the vanguard of the people, must have a moral conduct that shows him to be a true priest of the reform to which he aspires. To the stoicism imposed by the difficult conditions of warfare should be added an austerity born of rigid self-control that will prevent a single excess, a single slip, whatever the circumstances. The guerrilla soldier should be an ascetic. (Che Guevara)
Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first key to leadership is self-control. View quote
Jack Weatherford
Does Donald Trump have the temperament to be Commander-in-Chief? Donald Trump can't even handle the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. When he's gotten a tough question from a reporter. When he's challenged in a debate. When he sees a protestor at a rally. Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. I can't put it any better than Jackie Kennedy did after the Cuban Missile Crisis. She said that what worried President Kennedy during that very dangerous time was that a war might be started – not by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men – the ones moved by fear and pride. View quote
Hillary Clinton
If it is God who gives the spirit of power and strength, then it is also the same God who gives "the spirt of self-control,” and if ignoble cowardice and fear of people are just as detestable in any age, the excess of eager enthusiasm, "zeal without wisdom,” are no less corrupting and at times are fundamentally just as detestable, just as blasphemous. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Why is self-control, autonomy, such a threat to authority? Because the person who controls himself, who is his own master, has no need for an authority to be his master. This, then, renders authority unemployed. What is he to do if he cannot control others? To be sure, he could mind his own business. But this is a fatuous answer, for those who are satisfied to mind their own business do not aspire to become authorities. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Although both the natural and moral sciences seek to understand the objects of their observation, in natural science the purpose of this is to be able to control them better, whereas in moral science it is, or ought to be, to be better able to leave them alone. The morally proper aim of psychology, then, is self-control. View quote
Thomas Szasz
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. View quote
Alan Keyes
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. View quote
Alan Keyes
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control. View quote
Ted Malloch
Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, desires that all religions should reside everywhere, for all of them desire self-control and purity of heart. But people have various desires and various passions, and they may practice all of what they should or only a part of it. But one who receives great gifts yet is lacking in self-control, purity of heart, gratitude and firm devotion, such a person is mean. (Ashoka)
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. View quote
Franz Kafka
Self-control is true power. View quote
Marco Pierre White
He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years. View quote
Glen Cook
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit. View quote
Jerry Bridges
I hate exercising self-control. View quote
Kate Upton
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow! View quote
Joyce Meyer
All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.' View quote
Harvey Weinstein
Man will exercise self-direction and self-control in the service of objectives to which he is committed. View quote
Douglas McGregor
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride. View quote
Dan Gable
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline. (Jessica White)
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body. View quote
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. View quote
James Buchan
I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey. View quote
Louis Garrel
There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention. View quote
Sendhil Mullainathan