Quotes About Self-control

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.