Quotes About Self-control

We think of our emotions as being the result of something happening to us, but happiness is a choice.

"Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them."

Un homme sans passion e sans argent reste maitre de sa personne; mais un maleureux qui aime ne s'appartient plus et ne peut pas se tuer. L'amour nous donne une sorte de religion pour nous-meme, nous respectons en nous une autre vie, il devient alors le plus horibble des malheures avec une espérance, une espérance qui vous fait accepter des tortures

build no barricades when no one attacks you. Don't excite tempests of heart and conscience merely to pacify your conscience and quiet your heart, now ruffled only by a tiny breeze.

James 1:14, 15: "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bitterness; he would bear anything rather than oppose a person directly. Nor did it ever occur to him to wonder whether this forbearance might not be harmful to others.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.

It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings.

You mustn't take any notice of her,' says Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking.

You know, Madison, people are going to say mean things to you all through your life, and if you keep reacting like that, you're going to end up in jail.

avail. I choose my mood, she told herself as she stood in the kitchen, tossing back evening primrose capsules like Valium.

This was rock bottom. She'd just licked a Kit Kat wrapper.

Oh, come on now," she said mildly, as a car suddenly pulled into the lane in front of her. She lifted her hand to toot the horn and then didn't bother. Note how I didn't scream and yell like a mad person, she thought for the benefit of that afternoon's psychotic truck driver, just in case he happened to have stopped by to read her mind.

If you valued your marriage, you kept a barricade around yourself and your feelings and your thoughts. You didn't let your eyes linger. You didn't stay for the second drink. You kept the flirting safe. You just didn't go there.

It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.

In my judgment, such of us as have never fallen victims have been spared more by the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have.

Each man shall do precisely as he pleases with himself, and with all those things which exclusively concern him.