Quotes About Self-control

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

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. Do

tengo mucha experiencia en no demostrar mis sentimientos, y eso es lo que hago.

Mientras conducía a Coriolanus a la cocina, él se recordó que le autocontrol era una habilidad esencial y que debía sentirse agradecido por las oportunidades que su abuela le ofrecía todos los días para practicarlo.

Remember, we specifically asked you to leave your hair alone.

He struggled to get ahold of himself. This had to stop! He couldn't flip out every time he thought about what lay before him. Of all the people he would never see, or all the things he would never do. He would be worthless. Of no use at all. He had to have something in his mind to hold on to. Something that gave him strength.

Don't worry. I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself." . . . and I'm afraid he has hurt himself beyond repair.

I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.

It would be sad and wrong in so many ways to self-combust at this time.

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

A]m Ende ist man immer selber schuld, wenn man Schnaps trinkt.

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

And the key to perfect self-mastery, these yogis maintain, is svarodaya, the science of breath.

Le yoga est une autodiscipline basée sur ces deux principes : vie simple et pensée élevée.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that.

If you project hatred and jealousy, they will rebound on you with compound interest. No power can avert them; when once you have put them in motion, you will have to bear them. Remembering this will prevent you from doing wicked things.

we have to bear the result of our own actions because we attach ourselves to them. ...

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Where it is dark night for the [sense-bound] world, the self controlled [man] is awake.

Then you will become a man of firm will (note 19).

If you take control of yourself and you make the right cut or the right screen, then something good will come out of it.