Quotes About Self-control

Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.

7. Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been.

No thefts of free will reported."[—Epictetus.]

For times when you feel pain: See that it doesn't disgrace you, or degrade your intelligence—doesn't keep it from acting rationally or unselfishly. And in most cases what Epicurus said should help: that pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits and don't magnify them in your imagination.

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let your impulse be in your own power.

To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I see one to counter pleasure: self-control.

consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed. Ninth

Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.

Confine desire and aversions to things in one's power.

The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.' There

refrain from all anger and passion.

Not to be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can and should. And

If asked, he would no doubt have responded that "true" slavery is the self-enslavement of the mind to emotion and desire

VIII. Never esteem of anything as profitable, which shall ever constrain thee either to break thy faith, or to lose thy modesty; to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to dissemble, to lust after anything, that requireth the secret of walls or veils.

In all his conversation, far from all inhumanity, all boldness, and incivility, all greediness and impetuosity; never doing anything with such earnestness, and intention, that a man could say of him, that he did sweat about it: but contrariwise, all things distinctly, as at leisure; without trouble; orderly, soundly, and agreeably.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like [the wrong-doer].

He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be a good man. It is as if an emerald, or gold or purple, were always saying: 'Whatever anyone does or says, I must be an emerald and keep my own colour.

Wipe out imagination; check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power.

Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech, and to apply myself unto philosophy.

Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future. All

a ripe mature man, a perfect sound man; one that could not endure to be flattered; able to govern both himself and others.

Does another do me wrong? Let him look to it. He has his own disposition, his own activity. I now have what the universal nature wills me to have; and I do what my nature now wills me to do.

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