Quotes About Self-control

The purpose for your authority in the lives of your children is not to hold them under your power, but to empower them to be self-controlled people living freely under the authority of God.

It's easy to slip back. You have to be disciplined.

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I think crying over spilt milk and being all moody and sulky is really bratty behavior. You shouldn't do it, because it's going to drag you and everyone else around you down.

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.

Real people have trouble balancing their checkbooks, much less calculating how much they need to save for retirement; they sometimes binge on food, drink, or high-definition televisions. They are more like Homer Simpson than Mr. Spock.

I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.