Impulse Management Quotes

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

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

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

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

You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.