Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

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

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

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Self-control is only courage under another form.

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

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

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

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

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.

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.

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

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.