Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
--Charles Kingsley – English Clergyman 1819-1875

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.
--Ricky Martin – American Musician Born 1971

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
--Grenville Kleiser – American Author 1868-1953

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
--Calvin Coolidge – American President 1872-1933

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
--Camryn Manheim – American Actress Born 1961

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
--Bruno Bettelheim – Italian Writer 1903-1990

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson – English Poet 1809-1892

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
--Buddha - Leader 563 BC – 483 BC

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
--Mark Twain – American Author 1835-1910

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
--Mohandas Gandhi – Indian Leader 1869-1948

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. – American Leader 1929-1968

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
--Steve Jobs – American Businessman 1955-2011

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
--Wayne Dyer – American Psychologist Born 1940

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?
--Barack Obama – American President Born 1961

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
--Wayne Dyer – American Psychologist Born 1940

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
--Groucho Marx – American Comedian 1895-1977

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
--George Orwell – British Author 1903-1950

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
--Thomas A. Edison – American Inventor 1847-1931

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
--Epictetus – Greek Philosopher 55-135

Control your own destiny or someone else will.
--Jack Welch – American Businessman Born 1935⁶