Quotes About Self-control

Nuestros pensamientos y entendimiento fueron asignados para moderar, suavizar, enfriar y apartar nuestras pasiones cuando estas se desbordan, para gobernarlas y dominarlas. Pero, en lugar de eso, se sujetan a nuestras emociones, convirtiéndose en algo parecido al combustible para nuestros malos deseos, y haciéndoles arder más.

our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

We never regret having eaten too little.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

I am never better than when I am mad: then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

All of us, young and old, need to be reminded that our attitude is something we choose. "Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Once you begin to feel you are making a go of it on your own—that you are making moves and thinking thoughts which seem to have originated within you—it is not possible for you to believe you are anything but your own master.

The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

Habits are learned. Choose them wisely.

If you are not in control of your thoughts then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power, regardless of whatever else you accomplish. If you are not aware of the thoughts that you are thinking in each moment, then you are the rider with no reins, with no power over where you are going. You cannot control what you are not aware of. Awareness must come first.

The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

The first step toward patience is to become aware of when your internal dialogue is running wild and dragging you with it.

When you notice yourself fretting over something, you have accomplished the do portion. Now observe the behavior that you want to change. In your observation of yourself worrying, you separate yourself from the act of worrying. Now realize that the emotions you are experiencing have no effect on the problem over which you're fretting. Release yourself from the emotions as best as you can — that is the correction portion — and try to look at the problem as an Observer.

A paradox of life: The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

If you are not in control of your thoughts, then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power,

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

Without time management, you lose control of your life and do what other people tell you to do. You lose control and become a puppet that everyone can control and manipulate.