Quotes About Self-control

Sex is like drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.

take your time, leave mine alone

Only fools, he said, were given to bragging about how much they could drink.

The difference between a civilized man and a barbarous fiend—a madman, say - Lies, perhaps, Merely in a thin veneer of willed self-restraint.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming-Rhett Butler

Even if you think such things, why do you say them?" she scolded. "If you'd just think what you please but keep your mouth shut, everything would be so much nicer.

Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you'd only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!

I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

Hit the delete button every time fear appears.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.