Self-Control & Restraint Quotes

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

How can we maximize the benefit of our nightly sleep? Turn off cell phones, computers, televisions, and any other distracting devices before bedtime to establish an atmosphere of calm and restfulness.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Just because you're struggling with self-discipline doesn't mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you'll stick to your healthier habits - even when you don't feel like it.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Self-control is true power.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.

In order to defend freedom of expression, we each need to exercise personal responsibility. We need to make good choices about how we behave, based not on fear of strong legal repercussion or fear of the mob, but out of respect for ourselves and others.

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.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the day, 'patience' and 'restraint.'

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

I think part of the way in which kids develop emotional and psychological resiliency is by having some independence.

Controlled aggression, to me, is one of the most important traits to have. To have that social intelligence to know when to exert aggression in the military environment, and when to stay calm, cool, and collected.