Quotes About Self-control

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.

A glib tongue that goes on chattering sings to its own harm,

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

it was not in gaining the power where the danger lay. It was in allowing the power to destroy you.

Consciousness has to resist these instinctive reactions because the ego is liable to be overpowered by the blind force of instinct, against which the conscious system must protect itself if development is to proceed.

It was Tigerstar's ambition that destroyed him. If he had been willing to wait for power to come to him, he would've been the greatest leader in the forest.

He wanted to wail to StarClan that it wasn't fair. But he would not behave like a kit, however much he was treated like one. Instead, he began to tidy up the herbs, pushing all the leaves into neat piles and lining up the poultices, ready for any cats who might return injured.

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

Being able to regulate the amount of food we eat according to our needs is perhaps the single most important skill when it comes to eating, and the one that we leat often master.

Hara hachi bu is a Confucian principle, popular in Japan since medieval times, that you should eat until you are only eight-tenths full. This principle has since been given backing by nutrition scientists who note that when we eat there is a time delay between the body receiving the food and the brain registering that we are full. When the urge comes to have a second helping, it's worth waiting twenty minutes, and the feeling may pass.

If it's not a mealtime and you are wondering which of two 'healthy snacks' you should buy, the answer is probably neither.

Many parents, especially those who themselves struggle with their weight, believe that a child is incapable of self-control when it comes to eating.

Part of eating well is making friends with hunger.

Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Don't hold my hand in here. It's hard for me to concentrate when you do." "You do realize that makes it even more tempting.

Indeed, the whole question of fear is beyond analysis, and there is only one rule, which is, that a man must try to be so much the master of himself that he shall be able to compel himself to do whatever is needful, fear or no fear.

I don't mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I'm bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?

The cat who wants his cream must know when to purr and when to show his claws.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Athens rejected the concept of individual freedom beyond the freedom to pursue the virtuous in pursuit of telos; freedom merely meant self-control, the very opposite of what we often mean by freedom today.