Quotes About Self-control

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

No man is hurt but by himself.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

It wasn't just a matter of hiding what you really felt. If you hid your feelings well enough, it actually changed you. A

Doesn't matter. Seeing her, talking to her, makes you feel bad. And at some level, your brain wants the thing that makes you feel bad to go away. Simplest reaction in the world. Doesn't make you a bad person. Doesn't mean you have to give in to it.

I'd rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.

Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched.