Self-Control Quotes

"It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind."

"Anger is a short madness."

Horace

"Wisdom restrains the mind from wandering where it wills, turns it away from evil, and guides it toward the good."

Thiruvalluvar

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces."

Judith Viorst

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response."

Stephen Covey

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Thomas Jefferson

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

Horace

"No man is free who cannot command himself."

Pythagoras

"The best fighter is never angry."

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."

"Patience is passion tamed."

Lyman Abbott

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."

James Allen

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Ambrose Bierce

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."

Thomas Jefferson

"He who angers you conquers you."

Elizabeth Kenny

“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.”

“Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums.”

“If you're yelling, you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.”

“No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.”

“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”

“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

“Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.”