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.

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind… The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind...

The only self control I have when I am with you is that I am with you.

Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what...

Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that...

Many of us are reactive, not proactive. We react. We hit back. We are ‘an eye for an eye’ practitioners. We attack when we are attacked, with good measure. Our barometer reads from the environment...

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

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...

The battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several times each day.

Be nice. And if you can’t do that, just don’t be mean.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and...

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The “self” produces desires that “you” must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It’s difficult, though rewarding!

The best fighter is never angry.

conscientiousness” does consistently predict educational and job success and also subjective happiness. Yet as access to information increases, conscientiousness will become all the more important. It will be less about whose parents could afford Harvard...

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one’s temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who...

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed “his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.

They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn’t mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have...

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?

Conquer yourself; the world is you!