Quotes About Self-control

Mrs. Plackett did not believe in letting emotion show. Keep yourself to yourself had always been her motto.

Do you have everything you need? No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to wipe the drool. Throw in some steel armour for her heart and a fail-safe chastity belt, and then she'd be good to go.

Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

think there is a great deal in you; but you must not become proud and you must not talk.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

No one gets drunk in order to raise their moral standards.

Precisely because a human being has the ability to speak, for this very reason the ability to keep silent is an art; and precisely because this advantage of his tempts him so easily, the ability to keep silent is a great art.

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

People who do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk.

It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then.

In the end, rage, no matter how profoundly justified, destroys the enraged. Just as we are created anew by what we love, so we are reduced and unmade by what we hate.

Rage made you the creature of those who enraged you, it gave them too much power. Rage killed the mind, and now more than ever the mind needed to live, to find a way of rising above the mindlessness.

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

The temptation to start each day with several glazed donuts and to end it with an extramarital affair might be difficult for some people to resist, for reasons that are easily understood in evolutionary terms, but there are surely better ways to maximize one's long-term well-being.

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.

Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.