Quotes and Sayings about Self Control
One who has control over their emotions has great power over those who don’t!
He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.
- Philip Massinger
I listen and give input only if somebody asks.
- Barbara Bush
As far as your self control goes, as far goes your freedom.
- Marie Ebner
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
- Virginia Woolf
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
- Franz Kafka
By constant self discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Grenville Kleiser
Self- control is the chief element in self- respect, and self- respect is the chief element in courage.
- Thucydides
The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.
- Chris Page
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
- Mick Jagger
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
- L. M. Montgomery
Self control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
- George Bernard Shaw
It was enough just to sit there without words.
- Louise Erdrich
It’s okay to be a fat man. It’s prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self control.
- Camryn Manheim
Self command is the main elegance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being out of control is one of the worst feelings in the world,sometimes even worse than pain. It is its own kind of pain.
- Danzae Pace
Never eat more than you can lift.
- Miss Piggy
That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
- Mary Parker Follett
The less said the better.
- Jane Austen
Don’t give advice unless you’re asked.
- Amy Alcott