Quotes About Self-control

I've recently learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

My mouth always worked a whole lot faster than my good sense.

Affirmation for Today: I am strong enough to refrain from killing any or all members of my family.

There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

She gazed around the kitchen. Where was the junk food? The bags of tortilla chips and tubs of Ben & Jerry's? Where was the stockpile of potato chips, the stash of peanut butter cups? No salty, crunchy things. No sweet indulgences. In its own way, this kitchen was as creepy as the other one.

As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you.

I will pretend I do not have those feelings and eventually they will die from neglect.

again? No more 'cocktail me up, sweetie,' and certainly not in

You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

Consistency- you can't buy it. It can only be created at the individual level in the moment, moment to moment through the law of compounding.

The curious thing about dieting is that if it worked, you would only have to do it once. Diet companies rely on a 95 per cent recidivism rate: a figure that should be etched into every dieter's consciousness.

He was keeping his pants zipped, which actually wasn't as hard as it seemed, even after he'd gone for well over nine months without getting laid.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

Better not to give in to it.