You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

I trust you with their lives,’ Prof said, still writing, ‘and them with yours. Don’t betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don’t just act because you can; act because it’s the right...

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

The breath I take, the thoughts I think, the emotions I develop, the blood I circulate, the neurons that are wired, everything is completely controlled and has a deep meaning behind it. My soul is...

All around the Mediterranean you’ll find cultures that believe men can’t control themselves and shouldn’t have to try.

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

I would have done anything for him. But these days, I don’t want to do anything. I don’t want to get drunk or go to a wild party or make out with random boys-not that...

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their power over us....

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it...

He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of stillness to counteract all outward evidence of surprise, fear, anything.

Joy, I think, is the main fruit of the Spirit missing among Christians, and peace and self-control are the main fruits or qualities that seem to be missing among those who are not Christian.

Be at peace with yourself, or you’ll be at war with everyone.

In fact the “mask” theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in “The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism”, and Robert Jackall,...

Dominate the market with your products of self-control; no matter how many temptations produced by the devil, you will still overcome with profits of excellence!

The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at...

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don’t need to ‘control’ free speech, we need to control ourselves.

True love isn’t expressed in passionately whispered words or in an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrous potency.

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.

Discipline is what it takes to be a disciple of success

We need to not let food master us and take the throne of our lives. We need to make food submit to us, rather than us submitting to food. No one can serve two masters....

Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don’t.

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also...

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

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.

I wear makeup and I don dramatic attire because I like control. I’m not interested in controlling others but I’m invested in strict self-governance. This is why I don’t do many face-to-face interviews. I don’t...

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

Blood doesn’t satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

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...

Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent...

Time flies fast, but it’s good you are the pilot. Just control your time well away from hijackers. Save time profitably; Spend time productively!

You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke.

If I still need someone to calm my anger down,then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

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

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence. We all suffer severely enough from the maintenance and support of false...

It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.

Great men have great discipline.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Just because Marc won’t touch you doesn’t mean I shouldn’t. Right? I don’t have that kind of self-control, and honestly, I don’t see the point in it. Are you supposed to be impressed by how...

If you are not in control of your thoughts then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power, regardless of whatever else you accomplish. If you are not aware...

Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm...

Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.