Quotes About Self-control

Live a life of discipline and live a life of celebration.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

Everyone has inner drives.... hence we must be careful what we are Driven by !

Wherever his faltering mind, unsteadily wanders, he should restrain it and bring it under self-control Krishna, the mind is faltering, violent, strong, and stubborn; I find it as difficult to hold as the wind.

By getting angry, one shows that he is wrong.

Don't dig your own grave with your tongue.

I always take my anger lightly. I examine my anger and learn from it every time.

Never put in front of you what you don't want inside you.

Never put off anything until tomorrow except anger and jealousy.

Spending money more than you can earn is spinning a rope around your own neck.

The size of a man is measured by what it takes to upset him.

The wise man stops being wise when he gets angry.

There are two things that corrupt a man: money and women. Working to avoid it is great wisdom.

Think before you speak but do not speak everything that you think.

Too much of anything can't help you make your life better or happy.

When a man's temper gets the best of him, it reveals the worst of him.

Christians do not need more emotions; they need more self-control.

Contudo procuro sistematicamente evitar as brigas, e prossigo quietinho no meu caminho.

Aliás, a humildade me convém após a experiência de ataques repetidos. Portanto, não perco a paciência.

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

A Yogi must avoid the two extremes of luxury and austerity. He must not fast, or torture his flesh. For, says the Gita, "He who fasts and he who eats too much, he who keeps awake and he who sleeps much, he who works too much and he who does no work, none of these can be Yogis.