Quotes About Self-control

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

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He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive.

I wanted to slap Miss Priss. Slap her hard. But I didn't do it. It always been this way with me. I'll call another girl bitch before you blink, but I don't like to hit a woman. I guess it always felt like too much of a man to do it. Strange enough. Strength always seemed to rob the girl out of me, so I always take care to keep it hid.

She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.

Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one else can see.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.

I know that heroin will do absolutely nothing for me and that I neither need nor want it, and I don't have to keep telling myself that.

It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? 'Never complain, never explain.

We've realized something about ourselves too: we are just as tempted by the propensity to make everyone feel happy as we are by booze.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Abstemio, s. Persona de carácter débil, que cede a la tentación de negarse un placer. Abstemio total es el que se abstiene de todo, menos de la abstención; en especial, se abstiene de no meterse en los asuntos ajenos.

You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is no more than a child's tantrum.

Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.' - The Magnificent Nicomo Cosca

Fighting every fight you're offered doesn't make you a big man, it makes you a fool.

Self-pity was for children and half-wits.