Quotes About Self-control

If you honestly feel resentful against some one, but, having understood the foolishness of fury, intentionally mask your fury under a persuasive tone, your fury will at once begin to abate. You will be led into a rational train of thought; you will see that after all the object of your resentment has a right to exist, and that he is neither a doormat nor a scoundrel, and that anyhow nothing is to be gained, and much is to be lost, by fury. You will see that fury is unworthy of you.

Jealousy is a terrible thing. "It doth mock the meat it feeds upon" is an understatement. Jealousy is completely consuming, totally irrational, and absolutely debilitating. The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.

life was not a joyride at an amusement park. It was a deadly serious affair and only through a combination of solid values, self-control, and a steady commitment to a worthwhile goal was there a chance to achieve happiness.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

THE POWER OF detaching his mind at will.

Save for the occasional use of cocaine he had no vices

He only felt a traitorous part of his body that wanted to be connected to her. But he knew better than to listen to that part of himself. It had a mind of its own that could get him into all kinds of nightmares if he let it.

I promised myself that next time Shevraeth tried to talk to me, I'd listen, and even if he insulted me, my family, and my land, I'd keep my tongue between my teeth.

Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.

Losing my temper will not help,' he said and gave the door a vicious kick.

God grant me the serenity to accept my goal weight, the courage to resist anything with more than three hundred calories, and the wisdom to check the fat grams before I open my mouth and insert a fork.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Meanwhile, I'm having stomach trouble. It shouldn't happen to you but all that iced cream has done me no good.

The ego is not master in its own house.

EÅŸti st?pânul a ceea ce nu spui ÅŸi sclavul a ceea ce vorbeÅŸti

Olgunluk, doyumu erteleyebilme kabiliyetidir.

They don't commit suicide. They don't weep. But they can and do fall to pieces. They can and do have their hearts broken. They can and do lose their minds.

God grant,' he said, 'that he may learn to understand in time that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.' 

Bezetenheid is het beste te genezen door het zelf te bezitten.

She had appetites in plenty: she spent all her strength in repressing them and she underwent this denial in anger.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

My favorite technique for detaching is to imagine that the world around me is a wonderful movie to learn from and enjoy, but I'm not the star of it. Just as I'd never get so lost in a film that I'd jump out of my seat and run toward the screen, I restrain myself from feeling the urge to absorb the energies around me and call them my own. Using this technique, I can observe the events around me with creative detachment.

Mummy always told me, you should never let a man see your feelings or the contents of your handbag.