Quotes About Self-control

It's not like they could have done it if he'd been following his dick around like it found him water." "A dowsing dick?" Audra asked.

If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.

It is dangerous to attempt to live all the levels of your humanity while totally immersed in spiritual ecstasy. One does not drive a car while drunk, nor should one propose marriage to a woman in bed with you whom you just met, while feeling at one with all humanity.

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning

I know what to do . . . I just can't do it.

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Will power is the only tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Discipline may seem complicated, but it is actually very simple—it is what binds your life together. Without discipline, life is made up of successive indulgences and confusions based on aggression, passion, and ignorance.

1. Not practicing the four dharmas of a practitioner (not returning curses for curses, anger for anger, blow for blow, or insult for insult)

2. Not overcoming laziness and so forth

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Leave the bottle on the chimleypiece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.

I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction...

Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.