Quotes About Self-control

Se fixer des règles, c'est un moyen comme un autre de s'entrainer

you have a drink, hold it at your waist (not your chest) ?       Stand up straight, keep your shoulders and

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

If you give your body a choice, it will always take the easy way out. Your body lies. It tells you it cannot when it can.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

I'm not an alcoholic—I don't have the discipline to become one—but

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

She couldn't take her eyes off the boxers. Mostly, she had a view of the back, but he turned halfway when he looked over. She commanded herself not to look at the front flap, which, of course, was exactly what she honed in on. He spit and put his mouth under the tap to get some water. All while just wearing underwear. All while she just stared at the crucial spot of the Action Pants.

She wrinkled her nose to dismiss the thought. This is how she had learned to release some of her anxiety- thoughts may come, but she didn't have to follow them everywhere they wanted her to go

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

The man who entered was a stranger. He was young, tall, and something about him suggested violence, though she could not say what it was, because the first trait one grasped about him was a quality of self-control that seemed almost arrogant.

For the We must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within a man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and an unspeakable lie.

He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had become a stranger that had to be kept numb, and his will had to be its constant, watchful anesthetic.

He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had become a stranger that had to be kept numb, and his will had to be its constant, watchful anesthetic. That part was an unknown of which he knew only that he must never see its root and never give it voice. He had lived through one dangerous moment which he could not allow to return.

It means that he does not live his life short-range and does not drift like a bum pushed by the spur of the moment. It means that he does not regard any moment as cut off from the context of the rest of his life, and that he allows no conflicts or contradictions between his short-range and long-range interests. He does not become his own destroyer by pursuing a desire today which wipes out all his values tomorrow.

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

I think we're people that needed boundaries.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown

restraint equals indulgence

I'm out of the habit. I've spent years trying not to want. Just, you know, as an endeavor, like quitting smoking.

We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation.

The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.