Quotes About Self-control

Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Wag more. Bark less.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.

I don't rent space to anyone in my head.

Nobody has the power to imprison your mind, dictate your emotions, or enslave your soul - unless you let them.

When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.

if you just suppress your desire, and you attempt to renounce the object of your desire, you are likely to be tied to it.

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ....

He who fight monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

He who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I used to go to the pub every day and drink five pints of beer and then think, 'What is it that's making me put on weight?'

I'm not going to get into complaining publicly about fouls. Just not going to do that.

My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

I now know in myself not to punch lockers.