Quotes About Self-control

If it were said that he who cannot deny himself anything he inclines to, though he knows it will be to his hurt, has not the virtue of resolution or fortitude, it would be intelligible enough; but, as it stands, it seems obscure or erroneous.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,

nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

En realidad, tal vez ninguna de nuestras pasiones es tan difícil de dominar como el orgullo. Disfrázalo, lucha contra él, golpéalo, ahógalo, mortifícalo tanto como quieras y seguirá vivo, y una y otra vez levantará la cabeza para exhibirse. Puedes verlo con frecuencia en este libro porque, incluso cuando considero haberlo vencido ya, también es factible que exista orgullo en mi humildad

made the greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Rather go to bed supperless, than in debt.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. [Thus far written at Passy, 1784.]

Better to be thought fhe fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

that hard-to-be-governed passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way,

If you do not cure yourself of this temper, it will end in insanity, of which it is the symptomatic forerunner.

While lazienes travel so slowly that poverty overtakes him. Drive thy buisness let not drive thee and early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Rarely use [sex] but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, Poor Richard says.

But investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

I've never done a drug. I don't drink. I refuse to alter my mind in any way.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.