Quotes About Self-control

One gains more from a fast than a feast.

Awareness is a great neutralizer of negative emotions." Living Beyond the Five Senses

What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Let the smokers and the gluttons die... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will

By forcefully telling nasty people off, or performing other cathartic acts, you will supposedly stop your aggressive energy from building to harmful levels.

The point, Susila answered, is to get people to understand that we're not completely at the mercy of our memory and our phantasies. If we're disturbed by what's going on inside our heads, we can do something about it. It's all a question of being shown what to do and then practicing— the way one learns to write or play the flute. What those children you saw here were being taught is a very simple technique—a technique that we'll develop later on into a method of liberation.

But the disciplining of the will must have as its accompaniment a no less thorough disciplining of the consciousness. There has to be a conversion, sudden or otherwise, not merely of the heart, but also of the senses and of the perceiving mind.

He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.

Abban volt bölcs, hogy tudott hallgatni. A hallgatás úgy zárja magába a bölcsesség és szellemesség ígéretét, mint márványtömb a remekbe faragott szobrot. Aki hallgat, nem tanúskodik önmaga ellen.

in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Which is how most people acted when it came to temptation. They gave in. And we should never forget, thought Isabel, that every one of us is capable of doing the same thing if the game that we see for ourselves is large enough.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

He knew that one should not punch people who annoyed one, although there was a case for it at times, a seemingly irresistible case.

high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later...

But the problem is that even if you know that is the best thing to do, you often don't do it. ...it is true. It's as if there were two people inside you. One says: do this. Another says: do that. But both voices are inside the same person.

One of the drawbacks to being a philosopher was that you became aware of what you should not do, and