Quotes About Self-control

Guilt is always hungry — don't let it consume you.

He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well.

A fast is better than a bad meal.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Receiving strength from letting go. Energy within and energy without.

A surfeit of honey cloys the tongue; a surfeit of wine addles the brain; so a surfeit of ease guts a man of strength.

The exercise of liberty requires moral and intellectual virtues that oppose those habits fostered by the reigning economic, social, and cultural elites. The virtue most essential to liberty is self-control, yet the ruling principle behind egalitarianism, Hollywood-style hedonism, and unbridled materialism is the notion that one's appetites for pleasure and possessions should brook no limits.

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

Sometimes you can't slay those dragons; they can't be done away with, just like that." She snapped the fingers of her free hand. "You have to know how not to disturb them, how to mollify them if they become roused, and, above all, you have to come to respect them.

Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, Peace, be still!

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. -James Allen

CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful (unhealthy) thoughts, the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts, it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.

The man of virtue will bridle his tongue, and thus learn how rightly to govern the mind. He will not let his tongue run idly and foolishly, but will make his speech strong and pure, and will either talk with a purpose or remain silent.

Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends; by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought a man descends.

He must avoid quarrelling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.

Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. Clean thoughts make clean habits.

you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power.

beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and sunny circumstances: pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace:

How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood!