Quotes About Self-control

Atajar al principio el mal procura; si llega a echar raíz, tarde se cura (1): Porque primeramente se ofrece al alma el pensamiento sencillo; después, la importuna imaginación; luego, la delectación y el torpe movimiento y el. Consentimiento. Y así se entra poco a poco el maligno enemigo, y se apodera de todo, por no resistirle al principio.

not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

It is a hard thing to break through a habit, and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles, how shalt thou overcome greater ones? Withstand thy will at the beginning, and unlearn an evil habit, lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh, if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring to thyself, and what joy to others, methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.

I've always loved donuts. I can't go near one or eat one, because then I'm just done for. I always want more.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

I never try to get ahead of myself because there's nothing that bothers me more than cockiness. I don't think that's necessary at all.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.

People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

I have nerves before every fight - it doesn't matter who I'm fighting - and every fight is your biggest fight, so I've always got to check myself.

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.

Never complain and never explain.

Never say never, but I won't kiss just for the heck of it.

A dress should never take over someone.

I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.