Napoleon Hill Quotes

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

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

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

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

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

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

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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!