Words similar to self-control
Example sentences for: self-control
How can you use “self-control” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Or, most unsatisfying of all, you can simply posit a "taste" for self-control.
Here's why: Unlike a taste for drinking motor oil, a taste for self-control confers a reproductive advantage.
But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands.
But in his entirely marvelous book How the Mind Works , cognitive scientist Steven Pinker suggests that we can safely posit a taste for self-control without opening the floodgates that would allow us to posit a taste for drinking motor oil.
Yet for all his self-flagellation, JQA learned self-control early.