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• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both – winning and losing – get easier.

  Rafael Nadal

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• I hate exercising self-control.

  Kate Upton

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• A man’s job is not to be in complete control of all situations, but to be in complete control of himself in all situations.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• To be G-d’s servant, one must be his own master.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

  Brian Tracy

  Topics in Attitude, Life, Wisdom

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• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

  Aristotle

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  Tags in Self-Control, Philosophy

• Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Self-Control, Leave, Difficult

• 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

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• One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

  William Butler Yeats

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• I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.

  B. F. Skinner

  Topics in Decisions, Life

  Tags in Self-Control, Always, Things, Design

• A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

  Louisa May Alcott

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• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  Jack Kerouac

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• I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

  Pietro Aretino

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• Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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• The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

  Charles Darwin

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• The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

  Norman Vincent Peale

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• Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  Barbara Walters

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• There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

  Louis XIV

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• Don’t give advice unless you’re asked.

  Amy Alcott

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