Quotes About Self-control

The biggest superpower you can have is the ability to change your own life. It's in your hands, and if you believe that you can get the power you want, you can do whatever you wish to do.

I let people say and write what they want.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

Protect me from what I want.

Breastfeeding is the best diet. I want to eat healthy for her, so it's easy to say no to pizza.

Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with. I am very emotional. Sometimes to the point of where I just want to hide away, because I can't get a handle on myself.

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

Holiness is not some nebulous thing. It's a series of right choices. You needn't wait for some holy cloud to form around you. You'll be holy when you choose not to sin. You're already free from the power of sexual immorality; you are not yet free from the habit of sexual immorality, until you choose to be—until you say, "That's enough! I'm choosing to live purely!

restraint and self-control. We restrain our impulsive desires even as we feel the discomfort of putting off instant gratification and maintaining control of our lives.

God's children can feel driven to try to seem as if they never misbehave, taking very seriously the idea that they're to be as godlike as they can possibly will themselves to be.

Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. (2 Peter 1:5b–7)

THE BIG PICTURE A. WISDOM: THE FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY (1:1-27) B. FAITH: THE SUBSTANCE OF RECOVERY (2:1-26) C. SELF-CONTROL: SETTING BOUNDARIES IN RECOVERY (3:1-18) D. HUMILITY: THE ATTITUDE OF RECOVERY (4:1-17) E. GIVING OF OURSELVES: THE EVIDENCE OF RECOVERY (5:1-20)

Along in Life As you will go Remember the Times When you must say "NO!