Behind every successful person there is an out of control imagination.

Woman wants control, man self-control .

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

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

Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In fact, while I was trying to read soul-nourishing things all I could think...

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)

The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a testof willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat asmuch as I wanted after...

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so are selfishness and impatience. It is so easy to be confrontive without being...

Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a...

* Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free

The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in...

This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is...

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you’ve gained.

If you can’t manage yourself, you can’t manage your time. Discipline and self-control are what get you on track to execute your plans by managing your time effectively!

Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your body?’And why are you doing this to me? is the awful, selfish thought that is left unsaid.’Because I can,’ she answers, and I shiver...

No matter the situation don’t let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.

our mind is like a bitch which will never stay with us and which will never sleep with us unless we give & get a deeper understanding.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

Admitting a mistake is not a weakness; on the contrary, it shows an openness of your heart. It takes guts to say sorry. Only a strong and well-balanced individual with clarity of mind can do...

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

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

Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.