Quotes About Self-control

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Loose and forbear!

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles … by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. - Mark Twain

Presently the yellow-jacked handed the half dime back to me and told me I ought to keep my money in my pocket-book instead of in my soul, and then I wouldn't get it cramped and shriveled up so!

La promesa de no hacer una cosa es el medio más seguro del mundo para tener ganas de hacerla.

But he does seem to have leveled out, not exactly achieving some sublime moment of clarity but at least attaining a certain degree of self-control.

She didn't overreact. It may have crossed her mind to march down to the woman responsible for sending this charity shitbox, but she didn't. She swallowed the glint of anger. She packed it into her prim-and-proper voice, and like her son, moved on.

Sola como estaba, carecía de la disciplina necesaria para mantenerse convenientemente alejada.

I couldn't control that the Nazis considered me subhuman. But I could control how I treated others.

to the extent that you're anxious about your weight and struggling against the desire to gorge on wickedly fattening food, you live on a battlefield.

Over-indulgence blinds us to the truth, turning us inward, making us slaves to our own insatiable desires."11 Don W. King

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

We all learn to bury a broken heart beneath layers of dignity

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

And, as a general rule, it is more advisable to show your intelligence by saying nothing than by speaking out; for silence is a matter of prudence whilst speech has something in it of vanity

Has not that fellow abused and insulted you? No, was his answer, what he says is not addressed to me.