Quotes About Self-control

Don't succumb. Fight. You are of today, take hold of today, don't regress, don't lose yourself, keep a tight grip. Above all, don't give in to distracted or malicious or angry monologues. Eliminate the exclamation points. Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness.

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.

Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?

Every single pagan philosopher of the ancient world said that if you wanted to be free, you had to learn the hard ways of virtue and that the worst form of slavery was slavery to your own appetites.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Discipline is remembering what you want

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

If you are dazzled by the appearance of a promised pleasure, guard yourself against being carried away by it; but let the matter wait, and allow yourself some delay. Then bring to mind both points of time: that in which you will enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will rejoice and praise yourself if you abstain.

De ahí la sobria ebrietas como meta, pues quien se educa en ella disfruta de la relajación con dignidad. Como añade Filón de Alejandría, «quienes no se permiten la ebriedad, y se consideran sobrios, son presa de las mismas emociones que el ebrio»

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

A person who does think of his brain can't drink liquor or wine, feels often pain in life and remains away from women.

He who lets WWW i.e Women, Wine, Wealth to occupy his mind-space loses own common sense. We can find such man's reference in the history in abundance.

The celibacy of a man keeps his body healthy for it helps to keep filthy thoughts out of his head and as every sensible person knows that the well-being resides in the mind only.

The patience period of a person should not prolong so much because of insensitive people that s/he oneself becomes patient.

There is no bravery but slavery only to have many girlfriends.

Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it.

This infatuation must be dispelled; it is necessary for me not to admire you. I do not wish to fall in love.

Self-control requires mental energy, and each of us has a limited reservoir. When we're tired, these energy reserves run low, and our self-control suffers. This is why, warns a 2015 review from Clemson University, sleep deprivation puts us at greater risk of "succumbing to impulsive desires, poor attentional capacity, and compromised decision making.

Open your mind before your mouth

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.