Quotes About Self-control

Practice moderation in all things except love.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

You can't keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

Temperance is love in training.

Llega un momento en el que estar enfadado no es más que un mal hábito, como fumar, que te va envenenando sin que te des cuenta.

It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.

But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there's nothing freeing about that.

The way that you set the world straight is by constraining the malevolence in your own heart. (From "Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white privilege" on YouTube)

If you can bite, you generally don't have to.

Or you could learn how to entice yourself into sustainable, productive activity. Do you ask yourself what you want? Do you negotiate fairly with yourself? Or are you a tyrant, with yourself as slave?

Without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions - and there's nothing freeing about that.

You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.

Thus, it is necessary even for the most accomplished (but who wishes to accomplish still more) to retain identification with the as yet unsuccessful; to appreciate the striving toward competence; to carefully and with true humility subordinate him or herself to the current game; and to develop the knowledge, self-control, and discipline necessary to make the next move.

the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there's nothing freeing about that.

my first reaction to a command might just be that nobody, not even God, tells me what to do, even if it's good for me. But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there's nothing freeing about that.

I nod. You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.

You cannot aim yourself at anything if you are completely undisciplined and untutored. You will not know what to target, and you won't fly straight, even if you somehow get your aim right. And then you will conclude, "There is nothing to aim for." And then you will be lost.

One must bow to nature's law if one is neither impotent nor a saint.

La libertad se aprende obedeciendo primero, porque esta obediencia permite construir las herramientas psicológicas de la libertad.

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.