Quotes About Self-control

No, it's not okay to cry, because when dignity is all you have left you can't afford to lose it.

I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead.

When pleasure follows the temptation and could have been avoided but was not, there is always some kind of sin according to the amount of time it is dwelt on and the pleasure taken in it.41

Which of us can live uprightly and perfectly even for one hour, an hour free from fruitless talk and careless work?17

Thus if the mind does not rely upon itself, but is strengthened by the Word, it can gain such command over itself that no unrighteousness will have power over it" (Ps. 118:133).

Sin does not please men whether they are full or fasting.

To be merciful to [indwelling] sin is to be cruel to yourself.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Self-command is the main elegance.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

How is breath control the means for mind control? M: There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control, because the mind, like breath, is a part of air, because the nature of mobility is common to both, because the place of origin is the same for both, and because when one of them is controlled the other gets controlled.

A person who can handle himself can handle anybody!

Man dwells between passion and compulsion

Never allow your emotions to be raped by other's thoughts!

Never endorse other's emotions just for their ego gratification, it will ruin your peace!

You are the slave of your mind!

Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit.

It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Don't complain, don't explain.