Quotes About Self-control

Rochelle went silent again. It was interesting, I thought. I resolved to be more like this, myself: not to speak until I was ready. Obviously, people waited for you.

LuaÈ›i femeia cea mai cuminte, cea mai înÈ›eleapt?, cea mai puÈ›in st?pânit? de simÈ›uri; crima cea mai de neiertat pe care un b?rbat, c?ruia chiar dac? îi d? prea puÈ›in? atenÈ›ie, poate s? o s?vârÈ™easc? fa?? de ea, este de a putea s? o aib? È™i a nu o face.

Perché l'impulso del solo appetito è schiavitù, e l'obbedienza alla legge che noi stessi ci siamo dati è libertà.

A leader must always put the clan's interests before his own; it is the first thing you must learn. That is why self-control is so essential to a leader. The clan's survival is his responsibility. A leader has less freedom than a woman, Broud. He must do many things he may not want to. If necessary, he must even disown the son of his mate. Do you understand?

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

The third is to refuse the passion as one might sensibly refuse a leopard in the house, however tame it might seem at first. You might reason that you can easily feed a leopard and that your garden is big enough, but you will know in your dreams at least that no leopard is ever satisfied with what it is given. After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough garden for your love.

Free will depends on being stronger than the moment that traps you.

T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, dass er tun kann, was er will, sondern dass er nicht tun muss, was er nicht will.

To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.

One advantage resulting from good actions is that they elevate the soul to a disposition of attempting still better; for such is human weakness, that we must place among our good deeds an abstinence from those crimes we are tempted to commit.

l'impulsion du seul appétit est esclavage, et l'obéissance à la loi qu'on s'est prescrite est liberté.

Esta idea me causó horror, tomé la firme resolución de combatirme y vencerme a mí mismo, si desgraciadamente se apoderaba de mí esta inclinación.

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.

Hard to rouse and hard to restrain: that had been a constant trait in my character.

Jamás he conocido las pasiones más odiosas, nunca ha invadido mi corazón la envidia, la maldad, ni la venganza... en ocasiones la ira, pero no soy muy hábil y jamás guardo rencor.

He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. There is always a person at the table...No, really, I couldn't...Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person has discipline. But that isn't a person with discipline, that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy.

When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.

I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection.

I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.