16 Inspiring Quotes about
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
(Michel de Montaigne)
Ability to restrain your impulses, emotions, desires and actions
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
(Aristotle)
He who angers you controls you.
(Elizabeth Kenny)
Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.
(Travis Bradberry)
…the hardest victory is over self.
(Aristotle)
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
(Joshua Lederberg)
If you lose self-control everything will fall.
(John Wooden)
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
(Ambrose Bierce)
Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom’s root.
(Robert Burns)
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you don’t, life controls you.
(Anthony Robbins)
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
(Margaret Oliphant)
Self-control is true power.
(Marco Pierre White)
The best fighter is never angry.
(Lao Tzu)
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Anger doesn’t demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.
(Joe Hyams)
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
(Horace)
Waiting is one of the great arts.
(Margery Allingham)
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
(Joshua Lederberg)
