Quotes About Self-control

There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity.

Select a room where you can be alone and undisturbed; sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge; let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen minutes to half an hour; continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical being.

when you have learned to control yourself you will have found the "World Within" which controls the world without; you will have become irresistible; men and things will respond to your every wish without any apparent effort on your

Blame is easy. Taking responsibility is hard. Anger is easy. Self-control is hard.

Savior face-to-face? The Holy Spirit is speaking to you right now through the emotions you're experiencing. Remember, His fruit is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, [and] self-control" (Gal. 5:22–23). If

El carácter que Dios desea que manifestemos lleva las cualidades distintivas de amor, gozo, paz, paciencia, benignidad, bondad, fe, mansedumbre y templanza (Gálatas 5.22-23).

The Bible tells us clearly: Do not let the sun go down on your anger...In other words, don't go to bed angry. Get rid of your anger before you fall asleep.

The Bible tells us clearly: Do not let the sun go down on your anger...In other words, don't go to bed angry. Get rid of your anger before you fall asleep...I can guarantee you this: If you go to bed angry, you will wake up angry.

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother.

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

My heart says chocolate and wine, but my jeans say "For the love of all that is good, eat a salad!"

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

She put her two hands over her ribs to hold her heart in place and also out of modesty to quiet its immodest thud.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

Anger always makes you feel good at the time. Makes you feel bigger than yourself makes you feel that everything you do is justified. But it's a trap. Corran

Free will again, Cathy said. Or free wont, Peterson said mildly.

I just have to be smarter than my own mind.