Quotes About Self-control

One handcuffs itself, with its vanity character; it breaks the best ties and contacts.

That knows everyone to stop the dog from barking, if you give him a bone to make quiet him, or leave barking until he is quiet itself, but do not become yourself as a dog in a reply."

The eyes are the door of sin; the mind is the residence of it.

You can desire for whatever you dream; however, never let it become weakness and slavery.

You cannot keep away yourself from the shameless, impudent, and silly one until you close all links in an open way.

Your head is the head of your entity and body. Use, and drive that carefully, and wisely.

Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.

Trying to get through life without control over your attention is a little like trying to reach a destination with no control over your car.

Nobody is upsetting you. Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable.

Training the senses does not mean denying them or depriving them. It means educating them not to demand things that will cost us in health, security, or freedom. In training the senses, we don't forfeit anything in life of lasting value.

The reason we have such a difficult time losing weight permanently is not because we are making bad choices, but because we are not stopping our automatic subconscious programmed behaviors in their tracks.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

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

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." —Ral ph Waldo Emerson

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

I was enchanted. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember the dialect on my mother's lips when she lost that gentle cadence and yelled at us, poisoned by her unhappiness: I can't take you anymore, I can't take any more. Commands, shouts, insults, life stretching into her words, as when a frayed nerve is just touched, and the pain scrapes away all self-control.

I concentrated on training myself to react little or not at all. I learned to reduce my emotions to the minimum.

Was für eine Verschwendung wäre es, unsere Geschichte damit zu verderben, dass wir negativen Gefühlen zu viel Raum ließen. Negative Gefühle sind unvermeidlich, es kommt aber darauf an, sie in Grenzen zu halten.‹

But at times, as if a drug had flooder her veins, Lila seemed unable to bear the order she had imposed on herself.