Quotes About Self-control

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

you know I don't drink! The route to ruin, that's what drink is. Haven't drunk for near twenty years, so don't think you can tempt me. But I'll pour you another before I says goodnight, if you care?' 'And send me on the route to ruin?' 'There's many a route to ruin, as it says in the Bible. We all have to find our own?

The basic test of freedom is not in what we are free to do but rather in what we are free not to do!

IT IS RIGHTEOUS FOR GOD TO AVENGE HIS SERVANTS. IT IS UNRIGHTEOUS FOR GOD'S SERVANTS TO AVENGE THEMSELVES.

There is an anonymous saying, "Of all the masks of freedom, discipline (limits) is the hardest to understand." We cannot be truly free without having limits.

Your inner child also needs to learn the difference between expressing a feeling and acting on a feeling.

For if we freely let our lusts reign, it is sin. While it seems bad to hold back such feeling based on our opinions, yet not to do so is worse. When a person stumbles accidentally it is bad enough, but allowing your lusts to go unbridled leads into the snare.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them.

Never complain about what you allow.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is often painful. But we need to recognize that there are really two kinds of pain when it comes to our daily conduct. There's the pain of self-discipline and the pain of regret. Most people avoid the pain of self-discipline because it's the easy thing to do. What they may not realize is that the pain of self-discipline is momentary but the pay-off is long lasting.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That is the Law of Consistency.

You cannot rely on your feelings. You can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action.

Should I have that extravagant dessert or call it quits for the night?" "Should I put in the extra effort here or just get by with the minimum amount required?

THE PRICE TAG OF LEADERSHIP: SELF-DISCIPLINE

A person without discipline is in a prison without bars.

leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives.

Se perder a autodisciplina, você poderá adquirir o hábito de saborear a sobremesa antes de experimentar as verduras

Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

A melhor maneira de evitar a tentação é preveni-la. (p. 83)

Tame your tongue. If you sometimes overreact emotionally, a first step to improvement is to stop yourself from saying things you shouldn't. The next time you want to lash out, hold your tongue for five minutes, and give yourself a chance to cool down and look at things more rationally. Use this strategy repeatedly and you will find yourself in better command of your emotions.

stress this enough: if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away.

Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone else is to hold our tongue. When tempted to give advice that's not wanted, to show off, to say "I told you so," or to point out another's error, the best policy is to say nothing. As nineteenth-century British journalist George Sala advised, we should strive "not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.