Quotes About Self-control

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.