Quotes About Self-control

Less late night drinking leads to less late night snacks. Drinking definitely leads to bad eating.

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself in certain situations and learn how to harness that anger.

If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or I find myself growling at my family.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

I've tried to play within myself but I need adrenaline and need to be pumped up to play well otherwise you will see snoring snooker like that.

Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one's rational faculties.)

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

We should tend our freedom wisely.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Whether we are running our home or studying or hunting or following any other sport, we should go to the very boundaries of pleasure but take good care not to be involved beyond the point where it begins to be mingled with pain.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them.

It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious.

With very little ado I stop the first sally of my emotions, and leave the subject that begins to be troublesome before it transports me. He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course; he who cannot keep them out will never, get them out when they are once got in;

Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3

Greatness of soul consists not so much in mounting and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to govern and circumscribe itself; it takes everything for great, that is enough, and demonstrates itself in preferring moderate to eminent things. There is nothing so fine and legitimate as well and duly play the man; nor science so arduous as well and naturally know how to live this life; and of all the infirmities we have, 'tis the most barbarous to despise our being.

soÌ"phrosyneÌ", el estado al que tendemos, mediante el ejercicio del autocontrol y mediante la moderación en la práctica de los placeres, está caracterizada como una libertad.

Çok s?radan zevkler uÄŸruna baÅŸka zevkleri elimizden kaç?rd?k.

My energies have been drained. Masturbating too much will do that.

You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.

Every day we awake with a certain amount of mental, emotional, and physical energy that we spend throughout the day. If we allow our emotions to deplete our energy, we have no energy to change our lives or to give to others.

If you are impeccable with your word, if you don't take anything personally, if you don't make assumptions, if you always do your best, then you are going to have a beautiful life. You are going to control your life one hundred percent.

The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses, and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later.

You have the right to be mad, but I don't have to be mad because you are mad. I didn't do anything to cause your anger." You don't have to accept your partner's anger at all, but you can allow her to be angry. There is no need to argue; just allow her to be what she is, allow her to heal without intervening. And you can also agree not to interfere with your own healing process.