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.

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (…) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

The fact that rape threats are a thing says a lot about how rape isn’t a lapse in self-control but often a tool to punish & control others.

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor...

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

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.

Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don’t exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense;...

The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one’s actions in their present moment.

Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn’t share her body with any of them.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on...

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what...

What we don’t often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we...

If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.