Quotes About Self-control

The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.

La falta de informacion mantiene puros los espiritus conduce a la decencia o no deja salir al hombre masturbador ni a la mujer masturbadora de la decencia esto que queda dicho es mentira pero parece verdad en todo caso es una mentira que multiples hombres y mujeres que se masturban creen que es verdad.

4/16/85: If I were thin, I'd never say "I am powerless over fudge." a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.

I don't want to be that person, who just takes things.

If I was not able to control my social world I could at least begin to coordinate the movement of my own body.

I have to know" "What? What do you have to know?" "What you taste like." Another step. What happens when you know?" she rasped. "I stop wondering. Stop dreaming of you every night, thinking of you every minute of every day." Another step closer. "I think you wonder, too. I think you dream of me and wonder. You hate yourself for it. You hate me for it, but you cannot stop.

She'd already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

A slice of chocolate cake - priorities! - a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beens, a slice of chocolate cake -

What are you, a child? Your cock is not a toy, so stop playing with it for one damn night.

If left unchecked, my feelings can be a weapon more dangerous than a gun or a knife. They can send me sprinting down the wrong path and put me in the wrong place at the wrong time. They can hold me in darkness, blinding me to Light. They can make me soar one moment, and send me crashing the next. I must rise above. Must do what's right even when everything around me is wrong.

In short, a man who is able to teach is a person who is not in bondage to himself. Rather, his true identity in Jesus Christ has enabled him to be in control of his mind and emotions.

The only person who can ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.

But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves.

But if it so happens that you find good food and drink, partake of them gladly and sufficiently but not to excess, for men of worth say that one should not live in order to eat, but one should eat in order to live, for no one should eat so much that he is too full, nor drink so much that he is drunk.

Siempre he procurado imponerme leyes que sólo entren en vigor cuando me sea casi imposible violarlas.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Gautama Siddhãrta

will is a bargaining situation, not an organ.

Ganging up on a short-range interest isn't the same thing as killing it.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.