Quotes About Self-control

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

I am a victim of my own behavior.

Anger manages everything badly.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

Fondle the woman in your life once for every thousand times you play with your private parts. That should be just about right.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE!

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.