Quotes About Self-control

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and happiness.

He backed out, turned around and reversed into the slot, scratching the tires with each gear change, then didn't let himself drink any beer except one, and then another to hide the first, to stop his hands from shaking, and finally just three, to get it over with.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused," he once wrote. "Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

I am speechless: what can I answer? I put hand on my mouth. I have said too much already; now I will speak no more.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind.

Your life is in your hands. Only YOU have the capacity to turn it into a rosy path or a thorn filled one. Increase your vibrational output with Cosmic Ordering and your future will be rosy.

To take control of your life ... just let go!

Stop being a slave to your past and you become the master of your future.

Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

The sooner you master your mind, the sooner you master yourself.

Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

Algunos creen que la disciplina es una cuestión de «ganar» o «vencer» a tu hija. Pero éste no es el objetivo; lo que queremos es hacerla más fuerte. Debemos ayudarlos a manejarse, a gestionar sus emociones, y a ser capaces de pensar bien incluso cuando se ven sobrepasadas por las emociones. (En nuestro libro The Secret of Happy Children10 se habla más de este método de «quedarse de pie y pensar», tanto para niños como para niñas.)

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

You control what you can control—your image, the way you conduct yourself, the way you let men talk to and approach you—and use that to get the relationship you want.

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state.

The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.

Responsibility and self-discipline give you the freedom to be more spontaneous because you won't risk abusing your freedom.

When planning a habit change, expect to face temptation, especially when your willpower is at its weakest.

Step #1: Know the Difference between Bad Habits and Addictions