selfcontrol

The new ideal of selfcontrol is not the control I get over myself to keep me back from doing the thing I ought not to do, but positive self-control which should train me so that I have control over my powers to do things I ought to do.

New Developments in Education 1905

But Delattre has darker anxieties than those Jefferson had about what he considered the link between the habits of rural hardihood and the virtues requisite for democracy -- independence, selfcontrol.

A Trickle-Down Culture 2008

He proposes -- and endeavors to prove, citing a mountain of recent behavioral studies -- that morality is innate and has evolved over the millenniums, rooted in the very qualities that enable us to succeed as social animals: sympathy, fairness, selfcontrol and sense of duty (or conscience).

How About A Swift Kick? 2008

Liam: by so English, I meant that traditionaly English are much known for them selfcontrol than what you shown.

More than a tragedy — a scandal « BuzzMachine 2005

One moment he had been there, fascinated by a loveliness that made him gaze, and the next moment it was the quiet gravefaced gentleman, selfcontrol expressed in every line of his distinguishedlooking figure.

Ulysses 2003

Even the smallest loss of selfcontrol on the part of Krafft would have been enough.

Maurice Guest 2003

For all men think that each type of character belongs to its possessors in some sense by nature; for from the very moment of birth we are just or fitted for selfcontrol or brave or have the other moral qualities; but yet we seek something else as that which is good in the strict sense-we seek for the presence of such qualities in another way.

The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

The same strong susceptibilities which make the personal impulses vivid and powerful, are also the source from whence are generated the most passionate love of virtue, and the sternest selfcontrol.

On Liberty 2002

Kinless and barbarians might drink wine and keep their selfcontrol.

The Burning City Larry Niven 2000

The rage which engulfed him needed all his selfcontrol to subdue.

A Good Wife Neels, Betty 1999