Quotes About Self-control

Never let a person get to you, show them that you don't care and that your being the bigger person because they ain't worth arguing over..

I hate being the bigger person, when I shouldn't have to be.

Tried biting my tongue and being the bigger person in all this, but that didn't really happen...

I'm not ever being the bigger person, ever...

Being the bigger person means making a consious decision to behave at the height of ones character.

There is a difference between reaction and response. Reacting is letting other people bring you down to their level when they hurt you. Responding is rising above a situation and being the better person.

Most people react right away out of impulse when situations get difficult. Calm people, on the other hand, pause to think things through before saying or doing anything. They weigh the possible consequences of the things they may or may not do, before they even happen. This saves them a whole lot of trouble because they do not say or do things they might regret later. Their responses are well thought of, just because they took the time to pause and think.

The golden rule of staying positive in a negative situation is to control your emotion. Wait until you calm down and have thought clearly about your response. If you respond out of emotion you will only make it worse. Stay calm. Positive attitude plays crucial role in shaping life.

Your mind is like the most powerful horse on the planet. If you can control it, you are sure to win every race in life.

Keep it together, not just because you can, but because you have to.

In everyday struggle maintain your cool and emotion. To heal a wound you need to stop touching it. Keeping yourself calm in times of stress will not only have immediate smoothing effects; it can also, over time, help you lead a healthier, happier life.

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.

To abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult. It is not possible to say much that is valuable and striking.*

Change yourself – you are in control."

Be not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held with bit and bridle" (Psalms 32:9).

But I get ahead of myself, which is nearly as bad as getting Above Myself.

Que tu sabiduría no sea humillación para tu prójimo. Guarda el dominio de ti mismo y nunca te abandones a la cólera. Si esperas la paz definitiva, sonríe al destino que te hiere y no hieras a nadie.

Men who never get carried away should be.

When we ignore our radar we have to shut out its voice. Our minds become busy and distracted - we may compulsively perform mind-numbing activities such as computer games, gambling and gorging ourselves with sugary delights to the extent that they eat into our time in an unhealthy way, make us stay up late, or stop us from carrying out our essential tasks.

San Juan points out that the two great enemies of integration within man are his mind and his emotions.

Unless subjected to constant discipline the mental processes of the common sign types are apt to be scattered or non-eventuating. There is a distinct tendency to carry along unfinished business and to procrastinate in decision. If left to its own disorder, the mind may deteriorate into a tumbling ground for whimsies.