Quotes About Self-control

Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.

When I'm in the U.K. I can't resist Maltesers and Twiglets - the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can't get them easily, which is probably a good thing.

Even the good things don't go to my head and I don't let the bad things affect me.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

Tethered heart, free spirit.--If one tethers one's heart severely and imprisons it, one can give one's spirit many liberties.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel

A man's stomach is the reason he does not easily take himself for a God.

An instinct is weakened when it rationalises itself: for by rationalising itself it weakens itself.

Alcoholic drinks do not agree with me. A single glass of wine or beer a day is amply sufficient to turn life into a valley of tears for me.

For the indignant man, and he who perpetually tears and lacerates himself with his own teeth (or, in place of himself, the world, God, or society), may indeed, morally speaking, stand higher than the laughing and self-satisfied satyr, but in every other sense he is the more ordinary, more indifferent, and less instructive case. And no one is such a LIAR as the indignant man. 27.

Truly, a filthy stream man is. One must be a sea, to receive a filthy stream without becoming impure.

Greatness of character consists in having one's feelings under control. And even without any pleasure in this restraint, but merely because.

Of two quite lofty things, measure and moderation, it is best never to speak. A few know their force and significance, from the mysterious paths of inner experiences and conversions: they honor in them something quite godlike, and are afraid to speak aloud. All the rest hardly listen when they are spoken about, and think the subjects under discussion are tedium and mediocrity.

the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license

Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion.

I don't have a drinking problem," I said. "I have a stopping problem.

Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

In that case there will be no danger of his performing any evil action, since he practises temperance and despises money: all evil actions that men undertake are done either at the prompting of greed or under the spell of pleasure

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La verdadera libertad consiste en el dominio absoluto de sí mismo (Galileo Galilei)

No matter the wins and losses, you can control your attitude. You can control you coming into work each and every day with the right attitude and wanting to get better and trying to get better.