Quotes About Self-control

I can go days without eating if I don't think about food. Your mind, to protect itself, learns not to pay attention to that hunger feeling.

I always feel like there's some behaviour that we're all capable - we have our inhibitions protecting from indulging in certain appetites or developing certain appetites.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

anger joined with thine age, is not wisdom.

Yes I am poor man. When I was very young I used often to be drunk. Now it is very seldom. Once or two times in the year. But always I do something I am very sorry for. I think perhaps I shall get drunk tonight," he suggested, brightening.

I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…

His voice, with some faint Irish melody running through it, wooed the world, yet she felt the layer of hardness in him, of self-control and of self-discipline, her own virtues. Oh, she chose him, and Nicole, lifting her head saw her choose him, heard a little sigh at the fact that he was already possessed.

Çok içen insanlar?n yan?nda ay?k kalmak her zaman faydal?d?r. Her ÅŸeyden önce dilinizi baÄŸlar, fazla gevezelik etmezsiniz. Daha da güzeli insan?n kendi kusur ve yanl??lar?n? örtebilmesidir, nas?lsa kimsenin sizi kimsenin sizi görecek hali olmaz. Zira görseler de umursamazlar.

Pero soy lento en el pensar, estoy lleno de normas interiores que actuan como frenos sobre mis deseos

Hypnosis was a tool that Dick had distrusted and seldom used, for he knew that he could not always summon up the mood in himself—he had once tried it on Nicole and she had scornfully laughed at him.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

Bir an ona a??km???m gibi hissettim. Ama ben ölçüp tartan, uzun uzun düÅŸünen, kurallar? olan biriyim, bu da arzular?m? frenlememi saÄŸlar.

Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top

The truly wise man is the one who can keep external events from changing him in any way. To do this, he covers himself with an armour of realities closer to him than the world's facts and through which the facts, modified accordingly, reach him. 98.

El dominio más grande de sí mismo es la indiferencia por si mismo, considerando alma y cuerpo la casa y la finca donde el Destino ha querido que pasemos nuestra vida.

The truly wise man is the one who can keep external events from changing him in any way. To do this, he covers himself with an armour of realities closer to him than the world's facts and through which the facts, modified accordingly, reach him.