Quotes About Self-control

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

It's waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can't stand to wait. If you didn't get the deferred-gratification gene, you've got to work very hard to overcome that.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.