Quotes About Self-control

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

you will find that you have done the most idiotic and life-negative things when you were angry.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

In other words, your habits are not you. They are you on autopilot.

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

The key, Deschamps said, is to maintain self-control and to know when it's okay to foul and when you are "too far up the referee's nose" to get away with it. "It's something you feel. It's a feeling. It's a form of intelligence.

The celibate must firmly keep himself in Brahma Charya (i.e. chastity) until his wife arrives, he has to firmly establish himself in Brahma Charya and it is not possible to remain in Brahma Charya if we do not know how to transmute the sexual energy.

The celibate man must stand firm in chastity until his wife arrives, and it is not possible to do so when he does not know how to transmute his sexual energy.

Patience, coexistence, restraint, that's my advice for single women.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.