top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Self-Control quotes
"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"
"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."
"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
"Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us."
"Don't try to control yourself, just learn to monitor your thoughts."
Explore more quotes by Benjamin Franklin
"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
"1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you..."
bottom of page