Quotes About Self-control

A vice is a harm I do to myself in the pursuit of pleasure.

Some folks wear their halos much too tight.

They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

He who physics himself poisons a fool.

Am I the only one who ate my two weeks of quarantine snacks all on the first day?

I need to do some social distancing from the refrigerator.

Don't let the hours own you.

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.

The teeth form a barrier to check wanton words.

Most Scorpios don't know how to say no to a second drink.

Do not fall before you are pushed.

Spending time with negative people can be the fastest way to ruin a good mood. Their pessimistic outlooks and gloomy attitude can decrease our motivation and change the way we feel. But allowing a negative person to dictate your emotions gives them too much power in your life. Make a conscious effort to choose your attitude.

Only you can control your future.

You can't control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry (Ephesians 4:26).

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.

Watch thoughts and emotions rather than be thoughts and emotions

We either manage our thoughts & emotions or they manage us

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.

The rule is that when we know the answer, we do not ask the question.

We would like to believe that patience is a virtue. But is it? Not if it demands that we pretend to be calm when we feel agitated, that we not act the way we feel, that our behavior, instead of reflecting, hides our true feelings.