Quotes About Self-control

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss will lead to less effective results than you'd like. Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they don't operate with a mind like water.

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. —Will Rogers

never pick up a cigarette.

Bobos are uncomfortable with universal moral laws that purport to regulate pleasure. Bobos prefer more prosaic self-controlled regimes. The things that are forbidden are unhealthy or unsafe. The things that are encouraged are enriching or calorie burning. In other words, we regulate our carnal desires with health codes instead of moral codes.

my anger directed toward someone who has knowingly, intentionally, and unnecessarily acted in a hurtful manner?     2.   Is my anger useful? Does it help me achieve a desired goal or does it simply defeat me?

Selon Chondler, conclut-il, il n'existe qu'une seule vertu : la modération. Encore ne faut-il pas la pratiquer avec excès.

En todas estas habilidades primero tenemos que aprender a «domar» nuestra mente y nuestras emociones. No podremos escuchar si nuestra mente divaga y nos impide concentrarnos. No podremos

La base de las habilidades blandas es la inteligencia emocional y para eso es crucial aprender a domar el caballo de la mente y las emociones.

En otras palabras, tener inteligencia emocional no le garantiza el éxito, pero no tenerla le garantiza el fracaso (Cherniss y Goleman, 1998 en Hyatt, L., Hyatt, B. y Hyatt, J., 2007).

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?

Some answer or trick of the will: the ability not to think about it. What if everyone knew this trick but Claude Sylvanshine?

masturbating but did not. He didn't reject the idea so much

The medical attache partakes of neither kif nor distilled spirits, and must unwind without chemical aid.

The best time to stop is now, it always has been and it always will be. You've already thrown away enough of your precious time and life being miserable because of a drug, why would you want to waste another single second on it?

Think before you speak, think twice before you shout, think three times before you go mad.

Mark it, nuncle. Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest, Leave thy drink and thy whore And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.