Quotes About Self-control

His older brother once told him that if you found you were undressing the girl and yourself, take a break and ask yourself whether you're pushing too hard.

She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

It's not easy for me either, but if we allow anger to reside in us, we're more guilty than they are because we know the better way.

Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

The Proximity of a Desirable Thing Tempts One to Overindulgence. On That Path Lies Danger.

What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.

the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.

Kad sam se školovao za mentata...Bilo je vrlo teško, Alija, nau?iti kako rabiti vlastiti um. Prvo nau?iš dopuštati umu samostalno djelovanje. To je vrlo ?udno. Ti možeš rabiti svoje miši?e, vježbati ih, oja?avati, ali um radi sam od sebe. Ponekad, nakon što ve? nau?iš to o umu, on ti pokazuje stvari koje ne želiš vidjeti.

He aspires to rule my Barony, yet he cannot rule himself.

Maturity imposes its own behavior. One of our lessons—make those imperatives available to consciousness. Modify instincts.

You have no idea how much consternation this restraint created in the Royal Creche. Subtlety and self-control were, after all, the most deadly threats to us all.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me." "Such is the essence of self-control, youngster.

Recherchez la liberté et devenez esclave de vos désirs. Recherchez la discipline et trouvez votre liberté.

spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —

must not fear, she told herself, mouthing the words of the Bene Gesserit litany. Fear is the mind-killer.

Power attracts the psychotics. Always. That's what we have to avoid within ourselves.

SkromnosÃ…Â¥ sa tradi?ne považovala za cnosÃ…Â¥ a z dobrých dôvodov. Musíme si svoju skromnosÃ…Â¥ chrániÃ…Â¥, pretože ona nás zasa chráni pred nami samými.

A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.