Quotes About Self-control

Martial arts have always been a major part of my life.

I was raised doing martial arts.

I'm very, very, very interested in martial arts.

A lot of people think martial arts are just fighting, but it's character-building, too, and I want to give back.

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty Twinkle said. Oh shut up! Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. Why don't you grow up?

For a moment it seemed as if he was going to lose his temper too. His strange, pale eyes all but glared at Sophie. But he controlled himself and said, Now trot along indoors, you overactive old thing, and find something else to play with before I get angry. I hate getting angry.

Never let time be your master,' Bellman told Verney when he asked about it. 'If you want to do something, take it on. Time will always make itself.

It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

But you have to direct yourself out of this thing, not into it. Don't fold up.

Bir savaÅŸç? fark?ndal??a sahiptir. Bu çok önemlidir. SavaÅŸta olduÄŸumuz için zihnimizin disipline ihtiyaç duyduÄŸunun da fark?nda olur. Bu bir askerin disiplini deÄŸil, bir savaÅŸç?n?n disiplini olmal?d?r. Asker disiplininde d??ar?dan birileri bize ne yapmam?z gerektiÄŸini söyler, savaÅŸç? disiplini ne olursa olsun kendimiz olmay? gerektirir.

More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.

I am an alcoholic. I'm the first to admit that. I can't drink at all. One drink is too many and a thousand's not enough.

But I didn't. And, in truth, it was maybe better that I didn't- I say that now, though it was something I regretted bitterly for a while. More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing on the edge of my tongue, the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying it out loud to him in the street- which was, of course, I love you.

Even if life is great--keep it to yourself. You don't want to tempt the devil.

You act like you have a saggy diaper that leaks." "Maybe you need to take your Shut-The-Hell-Up pill.

Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.

A holy man will follow after meekness, longsuffering, gentleness, patience, kind tempers, government of his tongue. He will bear much, forbear much, overlook much and be slow to talk of standing on his rights. We see a bright example of this in the behaviour of David when Shimei cursed him, and of Moses when Aaron and Miriam spake against him (2 Samuel 16: 10; Numbers 12: 3).

Depend on it; there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way. To have our wills checked and denied is a blessed thing for us; it makes us value enjoyments when they come. To be indulged perpetually is the way to be made selfish, and selfish people and spoiled children are seldom happy.

One of the important lessons for me to learn was having the negative energy move around me, instead of internalizing and reacting to criticisms.

hate harms no one so much as the one who hates. Do not grant even the worst person such a victory over you.

Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

You will begin to see desire's impermanent nature, and you will also realize that you do not have to act on every thought or desire. You will learn that you can choose from the many possibilities of how to respond to desire when it arises, and you can discover a new kind of freedom, where you do not have to follow your desires, but can choose to behave in new ways in response to your desires.