Quotes About Self-control

Licking your wounds would only make them worse, no? The mouth was filled with so much bacteria. But Sadie knew it was easy to get addicted to the taste of your own carnage.

From a very early age, girls were taught to restrain themselves physically and emotionally.

You get mad at me, you kick the tire, I don't get a bruise, the tire doesn't care, and you're the only one hurting. How's that working for you, Kip?

You have spent 94 years in the hall of abstinence.

Had I not spent more than sixty percent of time thinking about sex in my early twenties, I could have reached sixty percent higher than what I am now! The red interest hidden in the black!

He was annoyed at his anger. He had failed to contain himself.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the others than it is to drive too hard and crash.

A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.

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When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, "I just need more discipline." Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.

Every day, without realizing it, we engage in all manner of activities that diminish our willpower. Willpower is depleted when we make decisions to focus our attention, suppress our feelings and impulses, or modify our behavior in pursuit of goals. It's like taking an ice pick and gouging a hole in our gas line. Before long we have willpower leaking everywhere and none left to do our most important work. So like any other limited but vital resource, willpower must be managed.

While decisions tap our willpower, the food we eat is also a key player in our level of willpower.

The ability to control oneself to determine one's actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base

When it comes to willpower, timing is everything.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit. So

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie. The truth is we don't need any more discipline than we already have.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit.

The goal in life is not to be a disciplined person but to be a person of selected disciplines.

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it's at full strength on what matters most.

Willpower is so important that using it effectively should be a high priority. Unfortunately, since it's not on will-call, putting it to its best use requires you to manage it.

Everyone accepts that limited resources must be managed, yet we fail to recognize that willpower is one of them. We act as though our supply of willpower were endless. As a result, we don't consider it a personal resource to be managed, like food or sleep. This repeatedly puts us in a tight spot, for when we need our willpower the most, it may not be there.

the food we eat is also a key player in our level of willpower.