#self-control

"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions."

"Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."

"Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word."

"Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.Be your own best friend, and not your enemy."

"I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself."

"Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger."