Quotes About Self-control

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important, said Anne severely

I made a commitment to myself to try to keep out of trouble. I sincerely believed that this terrible momentum was a thing I could impose my will on, something that could be slowed down.

Damn it, but she hated it when her inner brown bunny came out to play. The

Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.

Or even when we determine that people are truly intending to encroach on us, we may realize that, for one reason or another, it is not in our best interests to respond to that imposition with anger.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing. As will be evident, these are not complex tools whose application demands extensive training. To the contrary, they are simple tools, and almost all children are adept in their use by the age of ten. Yet presidents and kings will often forget to use them, to their own downfall. The problem lies not in the complexity of these tools but in the will to use them.

discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems.

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

How can we set limits that are creative and not destructive?

For the opposite of sin is faith and never virtue, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that's not how it works. How many men and women we have encountered, of great personal virtue and moral rectitude, convinced of their own righteousness, who have also been totally insensitive to the needs of others and sometimes downright cruel!

Fear and threat also literally shunt energy away from the areas of the brain involved in self-control and abstract reasoning—the exact opposite of what you want when you are trying to teach someone new ways of thinking and acting.

The beginning is hard, [Levin] went on. By the end of the day they're restless. Part of it is endurance, part of it is motivation. Part of it is incentives and rewards and fun stuff. Part of it is good old-fashion discipline. You throw all of that into the stew. We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean.

We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean

What is required of us is restraint and humility.

He who conquers self conquers all.

Discipline has been a key factor to my success.

There is no force in the universe that can harm you, unless you allow it to.