Definition of Self-Control

Self-control

Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.

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Control, Exercised, Of, One, Over, Restraint, Self, Self-Command

Self-Control Quotations

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt

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

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.
Ricky Martin

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Richard Holloway

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Grenville Kleiser

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Self-Control Translations

self-control in Latin is temperantia

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