Quotes About Self-control

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

There's times I blow my gasket. One thing I learned is I don't hold any grudges.

I am a self-disciplined person, and the Bible is my security, guiding me in that discipline.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let's just say, a major gut problem, and they're saying 'hang on there Dervla, don't eat your chocolate cake at dessert.'

You can't spend three hours at a gym and then go eat everything.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

I grew up always having dessert after dinner. Always. It's such a hard habit for me to break. It's fine to have dessert every once in a while, but not seven days a week!

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

I have no bad habits, except overeating.

I grew up eating fast food all the time. I developed that taste for it. As I got older, I started to teach myself to reverse those habits. I had to tell myself I can't have it.

Every time you concede a goal, you don't have to put a hammer to your head.

Couldn't dance because it would awaken carnal desire, which in my case was not only awake, it was dressed and down on the corner waiting for the bus.

It may surprise you that the primary lifetime threat to your child is his or her own anger.

You can't train them to express their anger in mature ways simply by getting upset at them and forcing them to stop venting their anger.

The apostle Paul stated it clearly when he said, "In your anger do not sin" (Ephesians 4:26). The challenge is not "Don't get angry;" the challenge is not to sin when we are angry.

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. —Galatians 5:22–23

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. SENECA

Anger" is one letter short of "danger." AUTHOR UNKNOWN

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. WILL ROGERS

Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs. —Proverbs 19:11

Third, agree that verbal or physical explosions that attack the other person are not appropriate responses to anger.

Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence . . . knowledge . . . self-control . . . patient endurance . . . godliness . . . and brotherly affection with love for everyone. —2 Peter 1:5–7

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. RALPH WALDO EMERSON