Quotes About Self-control

Pono always say slow-motion vulgar.

If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.

I don't have the power to change anyone except myself, and even then I rely on God's strength.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on a saddle.

What I've learned is that everything in life - and I mean, even the worst of it - can be turned into grace...the test is - for even one moment in our lives - not to strike back at something, no matter how bad it gets...when you're faced with the temptation to get angry or upset and to hit back - you just don't do it. You let the temptation roll over you and not touch you. The idea is not to add to the collective pain...and by not doing so, you make the world a better place.

Ted put a candy bar in his pocket. Then he wandered over to the freezer case, studying the choices before strolling out of the store. Mitsi hurried after him, barely able to breathe. When

I guess in the eyes of many, I blew it. I didn't go out with all the babes. Contrary to National Enquirer, I did not buy my home in Simi Valley to line the walls with women. Maybe I had a smorgasbord of women to choose from, but I was never a playboy. My friends couldn't believe how I didn't take advantage of all that female energy rushing in my direction.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

Jupiter will try to practise temperance but can

A thick skin is a gift from God.

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

It's meant I will act like less of an asshole, but feel much more like one.

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

How you manage your appetite for reward is vital to who you are becoming.

Our eyes and ears are two of the main gateways to our souls. It is vital that we steward what we hear and see so that seeds of deception do not get planted in the soil of our souls.

Free people can handle liberty because they have developed character through exercising the restraint dictated by their virtues. They are not the slaves of their physical desires; rather, they train their bodies to behave in order to fulfill the higher desires created by their own virtues.

We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.

To keep your head. quit while you are ahead.

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.

I stand up, trying to shake myself mentally. Get over him, Maggie, I instruct myself. I need to stop. I really do. I want to. I'm going to. I sound like a drug addict. Perhaps there's a twelve-step program for me. Priest Lovers Anonymous.

I caught a sob before it quite broke, surprised at how quickly it had cut me.

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.