Quotes About Self-control

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

Never eat anything bigger than your ass

Never eat anything bigger than your ass - Johnny

Your capacity to say 'No' determines your capacity to say 'Yes' to greater things.

A força explosiva da mais pequena mortificação. Todo o desejo vencido nos torna poderosos. Quanto mais nos afastamos dele, e a ele deixamos de aderir, melhor dominamos este mundo. A renúncia confere um poder infinito.

But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one's temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it.

A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his dress or the way he cuts his hair. Toughness is a quality of the mind, like bravery or honesty or ambition; it has nothing whatever to do with muscles.

A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.

He guided the passions of others, because he was master of his own.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

I prefer to control my brain's dopamine reactions myself. Not be at the mercy of... butterflies.

Fasting: disciplining spiritual/gospel reliance

Don't follow your brain. Let the brain follow you.

This is harder than it first appears: Try in thine own experience, each; that ye speak not for one whole day unkindly of any; that ye say not a harsh word to any, about any; and see what [such] a day would bring to you . . .

1) Learn to see, feel, and curb the impulses to lash out; (2) Learn to make a habit of listening and figuring out what is going on before taking action; and (3) Try harder to hear, to understand, and acknowledge what others are trying to express to you.

Learn to see, feel, and curb the impulses to lash out; (2) Learn to make a habit of listening and figuring out what is going on before taking action; and (3) Try harder to hear, to understand, and acknowledge what others are trying to express to you.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

If food is your best friend, it's also your worst enemy.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after, but instead.