Quotes About Self-control

John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.

John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

I don't use Twitter for bad.

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.

Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn't believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I'm a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.

I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.

It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.