Quotes About Self-control

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

Thiu shouldst eat to live not live to eat

Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.

Anger is like a piece of shredded wheat stuck in your dentures. If you leave it there, you'll get a blister and have to eat jello for a week.

Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.

Weak people always attack strong people - it's safer. It's weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and hurt you back. Stong people can walk away - no repercussions, you see, if you attack a stong person.

we cannot help how we feel, but we can choose whether or not to act upon those feelings.

No, thanks,' said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law

We would all be well advised to avoid the motivation to the evil thought. If persistently resisted it will "get the message" and stay away.

Develop discipline of self so that...you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.

Be careful of strong drink my sons," he warned. "Bear in mind it excites the sexual appetites, therefore if you see a comrade drunk, bring him home and bathe the parts in cold water." It was great to know how to be a Christian, all you needed was an erection and a bucket of cold water.

Sexual desire and anger shall not seduce you, and the dog of greed shall depart.

There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.

discipline in words and speech. Do not speak any word (from your side) that would create turbulence and turmoil in the minds of others. Even if you don't speak, some people get turbulent. That you are not responsible for, but from your side, do not speak. This is an oath you will take to begin with, for the next five days. Do not speak any harsh word. Don't let any harsh word come out of your mouth to anyone. Do not hurt with your words, for the Divine dwells in every heart.

Shasana means rules someone else imposes on you. Anushasana means rules you impose on yourself.

Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone, let him not lower himself; for the Self alone is the friend of oneself and this Self alone is the enemy of oneself (5).

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys instantly; the mind commands itself, and is resisted.

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. Im telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God, and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.