Quotes About Self-control

I can choose not to get angry. I can choose not to take offense. I can choose not to dwell on criticism. I can choose to pay no heed to harsh words. I can choose to ignore negativity and see positives. Through it all, I can retain my good character and choose to be kind.

Sometimes I need to remind myself to close my eyes and take a few deep breaths, and hold my tongue. Before I speak.

Anger only breeds more anger in return, it's an endless chain...Practicing self-control would take you a long way...and self-analysis would give you the insight to see that a person that snaps so easily uses projection to cover his own bullshit. A person with true strength of character, would take an issue at hand, weigh the facts, and act accordingly with a balanced mind...

Everyone has freewill, but few know how to use it wisely.

At times we have to stand up for ourselves and put our foot down, so we put our point across with controlled and calculated anger because many people out there are stiff necked and unrelenting, it's a means to protect one's integrity and at the same time trying to edify the opposing party...but a person that snaps at a whim suffers from chronic anger, lacks self-control and is not at peace with oneself, such a person has deep unconscious issues that needs to be addressed...

Often times it's easier to do bad things out of emotions, but we have to educate our minds to do the right thing which is harder to do. Proper discernment and wise decision is needed which needs a little time to act.

Hold, Sir, I say! None of your profanity before me. If I do evil to anyone on such occasions, it is because he will have it so; therefore, the evil is not of my doing.

By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.

Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs a gross if we are, about to believe.

Do you know why we drink? So we can do the things our conscience won't let us do when we're sober." If you're a souse, try to refute a statement like that.

Do you know why we drink? So we can do the things our conscience won't let us do when we're sober.

If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

I never miss a good chance to shut up

Fang is not the huggiest person in the world—he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which

how much it was. She didn't want to

Get it together, I told myself. Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.'

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.