Quotes About Self-control

We are an autodomesticated animal.

La gran diferencia entre un guerrero y una víctima es que ésta se reprime y el guerrero se refrena. Las víctimas se reprimen porque tienen miedo de mostrar sus emociones, de decir lo que quieren decir. Refrenarse no es lo mismo que reprimirse. Significa retener las emociones y expresarlas en el momento adecuado, ni antes ni después.

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.

Si eres impecable con tus palabras, no te tomas nada personalmente, no haces suposiciones y siempre haces lo máximo que puedas, tu vida será maravillosa y la controlarás al cien por cien.

The domestication is so strong that at a certain point in our lives we no longer need anyone to domesticate us. We don't need Mom or Dad, the school or the church to domesticate us. We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator.

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. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.

These people have will and desire too. But in *this* world a hundred codes and schools tell them not to *exercise* it -- to *restrain* desire, until desire turns into poison. And then to tell their children that *poison* is wholesome food.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and achievement." The

The coach who yells at refs? I'm never gonna be that guy.

volitionally

Por supuesto, para abstenerse de beber, intentaba convencerse a sí mismo de que todas las desgracias en el mundo son resultado de una borrachera.

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see it. I suppose it is one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn....

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard.

you sometimes act as if you think growing up means the rules don't apply anymore. On the contrary—a big part of growing up is learning self-control. You work on that, and then we can talk about expanding your privileges.

But my identity belongs to me. Only I can surrender that.

Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only once! Don't let yourself have more. You can't live off it. But just a bit of it is like a tonic.

Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.