Quotes About Self-control

Those who will gratify their appetite, and then suffer because of their intemperance, and take drugs to relieve them, may be assured that God will not interpose to save health and life which is so recklessly periled. The cause has produced the effect.

For example, in the Marshmallow Test, a classic study conducted by Walter Mischel of Columbia University, when children were given a choice between one marshmallow now or two marshmallows later, some could wait for the larger treat and some just couldn't. Those who could wait were more likely to do better in many ways as they grew up, including pursuing their academic and personal goals with less frustration and distraction.

The goal of any discipline is freedom. If the result is not greater freedom, something is wrong. (Chapter 1)

I've never been tempted to sleep with the same woman every night myself. Let alone reproduce myself in a leaky, noisy miniature human.

I couldn't strut around like Mick Jagger, or smash my instrument up like Jimi Hendrix or Pete Townshend: bitter subsequent experience has taught me that if you get carried away and try and smash up a piano by pushing it offstage, you end up looking less like a lawless rock god and more like a furniture removal man having a bad day.

If you're willing to sin to obtain your goal or if you sin when you don't get what you want, then your desire has taken God's place and you're functioning as an idolater.

I know this is more than I need, and that I'm harming myself by having it, but I love the pleasure of this experience more than I love the pleasure of doing what pleases the Lord, so I'm just going to go ahead and satiate myself.

Never overdo anything, always have a limit and do keep to it. For, that's just what it means to be self-controlled. ~Emeasoba George

Unforgivingness, hatred, sadness, bitterness and other habits like that do come home to roost i.e. they eventually affect the doer(s) adversely (boomerang). Thus, break or kick the habits in question. I mean, desist/abstain from all of the above habits.

Until you control and overcome your thoughts/actions/feelings/weaknesses believe me or don't, you are not at all self-controlled.

Kada bih svakog dana imao hrabrosti urlati ?etvrt sata, bio bih savršeno uravnotežen.

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

Your mind is either your most powerful ally or your worst enemy. The choice is yours.

Kindly keep your emotions for some time when I am not present.

Don't touch," she cautioned as she had before. She pulled her mind back down. "I'm fine.

Let go of the idea that someone else can make your life wonderful. Your happiness is in your own hands; that's the safest place for it.

There is no temptation from outside the heart.

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

Mimosa did lose its first freshness too quickly to be worth buying and I must not allow myself to have feelings, but must only observe the effects of other people's.

A Collie who learns to chase a ball before he learns how to control his enthusiasm can become ball-obsessed. A Collie who learns how to invent his own game with a ball, before running to retrieve one, will be less obsessive, and will be able to amuse himself without getting over-excited.