Quotes About Self-control

If you want to eat chocolate or cakes, you have to eat it in the morning, for breakfast or lunch - don't eat it in the night.

You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.

The need to control others as a prerequisite for male agency presupposed self-control. That imperative, in turn, included both the physical and emotional dimensions of a man's bodily self.

The trick was to get his reason and his emotions pulling together in double harness, instead of letting them fly off in opposite directions, tearing him apart between them.

We should not shed tears. That is a surrender of the body to the heart. It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with our hearts

Self-control is tightly linked with imagining the future. If you can't imagine the future, there's no reason to exhibit any discipline or self-control.

most of us can literally "choose" to be happy, if we understand the mind's thought–emotion mechanism.

Look not for too long into the doughnut, lest the doughnut look into you.

Abstinence is perfectly reasonable in theory, Gregory said, It just doesn't work in practice. It's like dieting. You can go a day or two, maybe even a week. But eventually that pizza just smells too good.

On reflection, though, it struck her as dishonest, like serving people ice cream on their first night at the fat farm. Hey, have some more hot fudge! You're gonna love it here at Camp Lose-a-Lot!

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

Los sentimientos son libres pero rara vez los hombres se atreven a obedecer esa libertad. Me

Don't let your mouth start nothing your ass can't stand.

Good is knowing when to stop.

Everything depends on knowing how much...Good is knowing when to stop.

Everything depends on knowing how much {and} Good is knowing when to stop.

Every nigger I know wants to be cool. There's nothing wrong with controlling yourself, but can't can't nobody control other people.

The devil has some Christians in POW camps due to alcohol, drugs, pornography, fear, discouragement, depression, pride, narcissism, materialism, and a whole host of other problems.

The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the submission to discipline and the rigor of self-control.

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn't keep a hard eye on herself.

We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage.

The point is, parent, you don't have to react to everything.

I didn't have to be a slave to the worst tendencies of my personality.

Never speak ill of others. Moreover, if you find people engaged in backbiting and you can neither get away from the scene, nor prevent others from backbiting, immediately begin to recite istighf?r (supplication seeking pardon from Allah). Never