Quotes About Self-control

He wanted to say, That's my business, and mind yours. He wanted to ask them if they had a beat they should be walking. He sorely wanted to mouth off, and right then he didn't even mind being outnumbered two to one. But they had thousands at their backs. So he tried to look friendly. Even smiled. Hating himself for it.

They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it, and they will have a major fit if they don't get it. Consequently, it is the parent's job—and the teacher's job—to help kids gradually learn frustration tolerance. In accomplishing this goal, adults need to be gentle, consistent, decisive, and calm.

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

Lusts within are worse than lions without.

They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

We let ourselves be at the mercy of our thoughts and our thoughts at the mercy of our negative emotions, in this way we undermine ourselves. —A TIBETAN SAYING

Do not be ill-tempered, regardless of how others treat you.

And then, for the first time ever, Shane ignored what he desperately wanted and made his first truly responsible decision.

I can live a comfortable life. The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Eliza got vanilla ice cream with butterscotch sauce, whipped cream, and a cherry. She asked me to get chocolate ice cream with hot fudge and marshmallows. This way, she explained, we could share without overlapping flavors. Except she was pretty goddamn stingy with hers. She only gave me one bite. Meanwhile I was supposed to let her eat half of mine.

Sin always takes you further than you meant to go and keeps you longer than you meant to stay.

Oh, he is really trying my salvation right now, because I feel a cussing demon getting ready to rise up and attach itself to my spirit!

Discipline is doing the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time.

To know what is enough is to be immune from disgrace, To know when to stop is to be preserved from all perils, Only thus can you endure long.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

You'll get a cheat meal, no question. It's not a cheat day. Every day, I indulge with something, because if I feel restricted, I'm gonna lash out.

If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

I'm not a guy who really gets caught up in outside noise or opinions, or anything like that.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it.

I don't normally associate bingeing of any kind with healthy results in life. And I'm not a binge-watcher by nature myself.