Quotes About Self-control

Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me.

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.

DEFINITE CHIEF AIM; HABIT OF SAVING; SELF CONFIDENCE; IMAGINATION; INITIATIVE; LEADERSHIP; ENTHUSIASM; SELF CONTROL; DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR; PLEASING PERSONALITY; ACCURATE THOUGHT; CONCENTRATION; COOPERATION; FAILURE; TOLERANCE; GOLDEN RULE; THE MASTER MIND.

We first make our habits, and our habits then make us.

Self-suggestion is purposefully controlled from within. It is a suggestion you give to yourself.

To protect yourself against negative influences, whether of your own making, or the result of the activities of negative people around you, recognize that you have a WILLPOWER, and put it into constant use, until it builds a wall of immunity against negative influences in your own mind.

Gluttony is one of the lowest and most animal vices, and is obnoxious to all who pursue a moderate course.

Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.

LACK OF SELF-DISCIPLINE. Discipline comes through self-control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Even the ordinary trader will find his business prosperity increase as he develops a greater self-control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with a man whose demeanor is strongly equable.

Forced idleness is far worse than forced labor. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control and strength of will and content and a hundred other virtues which the idle will never know.

The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile." Another

AVOID NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

Sua única limitação é aquela que você impõe em sua própria mente".

The intelligent practice of self-control, quickly leads to a knowledge of one's interior thought-forces, and, later on, to the acquisition of that power by which they are rightly employed and directed.

We all have the right to take possession of our own mind and direct it towards all we desire

THE SEVEN MAJOR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS (To be avoided) The emotion of FEAR The emotion of JEALOUSY The emotion of HATRED The emotion of REVENGE The emotion of GREED The emotion of SUPERSTITION The emotion of ANGER

b. Wrong habits of thought; giving expression to negatives. c. Wrong use of, and over indulgence in sex.

If you can't manage your own mental attitude, what makes you think you can manage others?

Back of all achievement, back of all self-control, back of all thought control, is that magic something called desire! It is no misstatement of fact to say that you are limited only by the depth of your desires!

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.

Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.