Quotes About Self-control

Everyone liked Robin. He liked Robin. How could he fail to like her, after everything they had been through together? However, from the very first he had told himself: this far and no further. A distance must be maintained. Barriers must remain in place.

His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn't stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act.

person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.

You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offender, to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest. That is the powerful move. What you do not react to cannot drag you down in a futile engagement. Your pride is not involved. The best lesson you can teach an irritating gnat is to consign it to oblivion by ignoring it.

A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist.

Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.

Along the way there was one thing that held me back, as it does so many other silent sons. This one thing burdens us like a heavy unwanted blanket. Unless we kick it off, it will destroy us. This one thing is—anger.

I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your happiness may be independent of all outside events.

But two things might restrain a man in the Great Debauch: malaria and guard duty.

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

So much of life is out of our control. I've learned to focus on what I do have control over: myself.

If you cannot get control of yourself, do not try to get rich.

Pay yourself first: the power of self-discipline If

Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow.

administrar la mente es administrar la vida.

Wage war against the weaker thoughts that have crept into the palace of your mind. They will see that they are unwanted and leave like unwelcome visitors.

willpower weakens once it gets tired. Scientists call the condition 'ego depletion.

The way to annihilate the weakest impulses of your lower self and to free yourself of the cravings and temptations that are blocking your best is through ceaseless repetition of the new behavior you're working hard to install. The word that comes to mind here is steadfast. Be steadfast in your commitment to remaining a lifelong member of The 5 AM Club.

You become undefeatable in the world by what you do when no one's watching.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Mess lowers your self-control as well as steals your cognitive bandwidth.

The highest of all human abilities is the ability each one of us has to choose how we respond to the environment we find ourselves within