top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Self-Control quotes
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."
"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Jeffrey Fry
"An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear."
"Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them."
"An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same."
"Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy."
"Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you."
"To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it."
"Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future."
"Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution."
"You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself."
bottom of page