Quotes About Self-control

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.

You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Hämningar växer inte på träd förstår ni - det behövs tålamod, det behövs koncentration, det behövs en hängiven och självuppoffrande förälder och ett hårt arbetande, uppmärksamt litet barn för att på bara några år skapa en riktigt hämmad och knuten och förstoppad människa.

You learn by sixty to accept in a sporting spirit the derision of virtuous bystanders.

Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I

I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I wanted to be cold to him, so I turned on my heel and started to walk away.

Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.

Not knowing how to be moderate is possibly the most visible symptom of codependence to other people. (...) In other words codependents simply don't appear to understand what moderation is. They are either totally involved or totally detached, totally happy or absolutely miserable, etc. The codependent believes a moderate response to a situation isn't enough. Only too much is enough.

É por isso, meus caros Símias e Cebete, que os verdadeiros filósofos se acautelam contra os apetites do corpo, resistem-lhes e não se deixam dominar por eles; não têm medo da pobreza nem da ruína de sua própria casa, como a maioria dos homens, amigos das riquezas, nem temem a falta de honrarias e a vida inglória, como se dá com os amantes do poder e das distinções