Quotes About Self-control

Each person's feelings are his or her own. Nobody makes anyone feel; no one is ultimately responsible for our feelings except us, no matter how much we insist they are. People might help us feel, but they don't make us feel. People also cannot change the way we feel. Only we can do that.

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative.

Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city" (RSV).

There was a time when I was a hothead, and my temper wreaked havoc in my life until I learned to take myself out of the center of the circle. The real key to staying cool and calm is to relinquish selfishness and always consider the feelings of others.

Proverbs 16:32, which says that mightier is the man who can control his temper than the man who can conquer a city.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men," James Madison pointed out, "the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

have you not had your morning glass of shut up?

Do not I know if women have a will They'll do 'gainst all the watches o'the world? (2. 7. 8-9)

Arsenius always used to say this, 'Why, words, did I let you get out? I have often been sorry that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.

Macarius said also, 'If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

the really dreadful losses" always occur after "the buyer forgot to ask 'How much?'" Most painfully of all, by losing their self-control just when they needed it the most, these people proved Graham's assertion that "the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

They ignored Graham's warning that "the really dreadful losses" always occur after "the buyer forgot to ask 'How much?'" Most painfully of all, by losing their self-control just when they needed it the most, these people proved Graham's assertion that "the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

Choose your battles," I snarled at Æthelstan. "That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.

Did my moral upbrining somehow turn against itself? If looking at someone with desire was as bad as satisfying the desire, if having an active fantasy was as bad as the act you were fantasizing- then why not the satisfaction and the act itself? As the days went on, I discovered that I couldn't stop thinking sinful thoughts. In which case I also wanted the sin itself.

The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

La mayor felicidad se deriva del completo dominio de las propias facultades

Look into the irrationality closely, with a determination not to respect it, and not to let it dominate you. Whenever it thrusts foolish thoughts or feelings into your consciousness, pull them up by the roots, examine them, and reject them.

there is no profit in feeling unless one learns to dominate it and impersonalise it. -

It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get." One may say that Heraclitus values power obtained through self-mastery, and despises the passions that distract men from their central ambitions.