Quotes About Self-control

True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

But Kerry allowed her first thought, bitter as ginger root, to go where most first thoughts should go: unsaid. Skimmed off to leave something kinder beneath.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

Better to allow people to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

There is no known correct way to eat pistachio nuts. Nevertheless, they are delicious. The pistachio nut must therefore be Nature's way of teaching us self-control. If so, it doesn't work.

Give up opium before it kills you. Only coffee is brain food.

You'll get to the point where you react differently when you see food you know you shouldn't eat.

Remember, the bread will be tempting, but I can resist it. It's more important to me to lose weight. If I eat the bread, I'll get momentary pleasure, but afterwards I'll feel worse.

need to read my Advantages Response Card at least twice a day if I want to resist temptation. It'll take only a few seconds. It's not a big deal. I might not need it psychologically today, but I'll need it soon. I have to cement these reasons in my mind for when the going gets tough.

To lose weight, I'm going to have to train myself to do what I need to do, not what I feel like doing at the moment.

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.

Responsável significa, naturalmente, amarrar o próprio sapato. Mas significa também não ter permissão para culpar uma infância terrível — ou uma paixão, uma tentação, uma ignorância ou uma inocência — por atos que são nossos, por ações que realmente praticamos. Pois se, na realidade, as praticamos, somos responsáveis.

I'm not usually a maniac. I don't really get angry. I just get sort of circular. Thinking, oh God, this is probably my fault for not doing whatever, and then, I don't know, I talk myself out of anger because it rarely gets the right results, does it? So it just sort of dissipates instead of getting expelled. I mean, not expelled in a school way, in a purgative way.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Patience is simply the mindset of saying "no thanks" to anxiety. – Unknown

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

I think it better for me to do A than B, but am led by anger, or some other emotion, to do B instead.

What happens, the Stoics think, is that, being in an emotional state, she follows the reasons which go with that state: she seeks revenge because that is how angry people think. But there is no real division within Medea's self. She oscillates between different decisions as a whole; there is no inner battle of parts of her.

The more wine I drink in moderation, the better I am.

No puedo lamentarme por lo que hice en el pasado porque no tengo poder para cambiarlo, pero sí para ser dueña de mi futuro.