Definition of Self-Control

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Definition of Self-Control
	Self-control Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command. Related Definitions: Control, Exercised, Of, One, Over, Restraint, Self, Self-Command

Self-Control Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-Control Translations

self-control in Latin is temperantia

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