Quotes About Self-control

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

I know that the smallest, most inconsequential things can set me off: a well-meaning friend or family member who says, "Come on, just this once." Off-limit foods served at special occasions like birthday parties, weddings, and holidays. A perceived insult, a bad day, or lousy weather. If there has been an excuse to eat, I have used it to always find my way to food—and the price I paid was staying fat. Those days are over.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness

Self-control is an important part of living a Christian life. But you don't have to do it on your own. God gives you a lot of help along the way. When you're tempted to do the wrong thing, go the wrong direction, He's there for you.

In the beginning, doing other than yelling when you are angry will be extremely difficult. But each time you succeed, the new pathway is strengthened. Eventually the urge to yell is so small that it's easy to ignore

Stay aware of your good moods and the foolish decisions these moods can lead to, and you'll be able to enjoy feeling good without any regrets.

He'd been about to make a joke, but he kept it to himself.

You have to watch them all the time,' she assured me darkly. 'Even if the spirit's willing, the flesh is weak!

Maturity is understanding that not all response requires your time and energy. Learn to protect your peace, some are better off with your silence.

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

By all the shining moons, your brain is driving me crazy. Here, you keep this, use it on me whenever you want, and STOP WORRYING SO MUCH.

Keep your mouth shut and don't get in the way." "As if I would!" Fatespeaker said happily, immediately tripping Starflight with her tail.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

People commonly use the word 'procrastination' to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

And anyway, never, never apologise the morning after for what your hormones were telling you last night.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant

She was terrified. She was beginning to realise that after long months of selfcontrol, the pressure, the earthquake, the volcano of her soul was showing signs that it was about to erupt, and the moment that this happened, she would have no way of controlling her feelings.

People only allow themselves the luxury of being insane when they are in a position to do so.