51 Inspirational Self Control Quotes

Having goals, hard work as well as self-control is very important for success in life.  But many times we lose our self control in some cases. And as a result, obstacles are created in our way of success.

To overcome this problem we are sharing  a collection of special inspirational self control quotes collected from various places. Which will motivate you to maintain control over yourself in all areas of your life.

Self Control Quotes

• “I may have lost my heart, but not my self control.”  ~Jane Austen
• “I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart.”  ~Che Acebido
• “I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self control, but that’s not actually the case. Edward Cullen.”  ~Stephenie Meyer
• “Self control is like quietly walking through the trees and calmly trying to find your way out of the forest. Selfmastery is like being okay in the forest.”  ~Joan F. Marques
• “Self control is not about slimming down but about simmering down.”  ~Anyaele Sam Chiyson
• “If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.”  ~Criss Jami
• “Your mid thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some selfcontrol.”  ~Zadie Smith
• “Self control was the bedrock of leadership.”  ~Juliana Gray
• “A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit formation is self confidence.”  ~Ralph Alfred Habas
• “Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn and most fools do. But it takes character and selfcontrol to be understanding and forgiving.”  ~Dale Carnegie

Quotes About Self Control

• “I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.”  ~Chuck Palahniuk
• “It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”  ~Chuck Palahniuk
• “Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.”  ~Alain De Botton
• “Self knowledge is better than self control any day, Raquel said firmly. And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.”  ~Claudia Gray
• “This lack of self control I fear is never ending.”  ~Linkin Park
• “Self control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”  ~James Allen
• “Start the practice of self control with some penance; begin with fasting.”  ~Mahavira
• “The first key to leadership is self control.”  ~Jack Weatherford
• “Hunger and self control do not go hand in hand.”  ~Kathy Freston
• “Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to selfcontrol; it gives rise to indolence.”  ~Mahavira

Quotes On Self Control

• “There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone, I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.”  ~Richelle Mead
• “Some models of self control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.”  ~Joseph J. Ellis
• “The intelligent desire self control; children want candy.”  ~Rumi
• “Once a weak person gets really frightened, they get quite savage with terror and they’ve no self-control at all.”  ~Agatha Christie
• “Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, selfcontrol and intelligence.”  ~Gian Kumar
• “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and selfcontrol.”
• “Self control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion…”  ~W. Somerset Maugham
• “I hate exercising self control.”  ~Kate Upton
• “Abstention, self control, self inflicted pain: these are forms of power about the only kind you can have when you’re a fourteenyearold girl, by the way.”  ~Meg Howrey
• “Self confidence is the degree of control, conviction and contention on own character.”  ~Anuj Somany

Self-Control Is Strength Quote

• “Paradoxically, without self control you can’t be free.”  ~Russell A. Barkley
• “But insight doesn’t necessarily produce self control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.”  ~Keith Ablow
• “Industry, thrift and self control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.”  ~Calvin Coolidge
• “Mastering self control…the act of restraining one’s emotions is the true key to success.”  ~Timothy Pina
• “I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of selfcontrol, doing worse damage to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”  ~Chuck Palahniuk
• “By constant self-discipline and self control you can develop greatness of character.”  ~Grenville Kleiser
• “I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”  ~Paula Hawkins
• “Everything dictated silence and selfcontrol but I couldn’t restrain myself and spoke my mind.”  ~Philip Roth
• “Self control is mission control! That is why some men are superior to their mates.”  ~Anyaele Sam Chiyson
• “Woman wants control, man self control .”  ~Immanuel Kant

Self Control Quotes In English

• “I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than selfcontrol.”  ~Tim Ferriss
• “Self control is something for which I do not strive. Self control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”  ~Franz Kafka
• “Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.”  ~Paramahansa Yogananda
• “Excuses fall silent behind self control, focus, and direction.”  ~Lorii Myers
• “Self control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”  ~Franz Kafka
• “The is a secret for greater self control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.”  ~Kelly Mcgonigal
• “Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to selfcontrol.”  ~Steven Pinker
• “A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self control, has no character.”  ~Henry Hazlitt
• “Faith inspires us to accept those situations we cannot change. And in the situations where we do have control, selfconfidence supports our actively creating change.”  ~Regina Cates
• “I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no selfcontrol.”  ~Laurell K. Hamilton
• “Doubt is an obstacle to success, and success is how you control the doubt.”  ~Unarine Ramaru