George Lakoff Quotes

I don't like feeling out of control. I have to feel like I'm in control of my body.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

I have to feel like I'm in control of my body.

You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Self-command is the main elegance.

I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.