Quotes About Self-control

Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city. —Proverbs 16:32

Por cada minuto de enojo se pierden sesenta segundos de felicidad. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).

Do everything without complaining and arguing. —Philippians 2:14

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it's at full strength on what matters most.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle

No matter how miserable they are, porn seems like a way to feel good a solution rather than a source of problems.

We say, "I will," and "I will not," and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.

We say, I will, and I will not, and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.

Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.

If you're eating past fullness, stop. And if you don't stop, fine—but ask yourself what's going on. Notice what you feel, what arises inside you.

The Book says, 'Whilst that you keep your counsel in your heart, you keep it in your prison, and, when you disclose your counsel unto any person, he holds you in his prison.' And, therefore, it is better to hide your counsel in your heart, than entreat him to whom you have revealed your secret to keep it close and still. For Seneca says, 'If it be so that you can not keep your own counsel, how can you then ask any person to keep your counsel hidden?

For the proverb says, 'He who embraces too much, retains too little.' And Cato says, 'Assay to do only such a thing as you have the power to do, lest the burdensome charge oppress you so sorely that it behooves you to abandon the task you have begun.

Lo, what says Saint Augustine: "There is nothing so like the Devil's child as he who oft chides others." Saint Paul also says, "It behooves the servant of God not to chide.

He who has learned not to intrude his emotions upon his fellows has also learned not to intrude them upon himself.

The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

You can prick your finger ... Just don't finger your prick.

Did you ever eat a whole box of cookies right in a row? Did you ever do that? I don't mean take them into your bedroom or something. I mean open them right up in the kitchen as soon as you get home from the store and eat 'em while you're standing there? Just stare at the toaster while you're eatin' a whole goddamn box of cookies?

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR