Quotes About Self-control

One of the most important aspects of being verbally assertive is to be persistent and to keep saying what you want over and over again without getting angry, irritated, or loud.

not being able to govern events, I govern myself." ~ Michel de Montaigne

That's why about nine out of ten people I speak to who say they have an overeating problem don't. Their problem is that they don't eat when they eat.

After seeing his face in the mirror, he swore to abstain from alcohol until the end of the month. It seemed reasonable enough, since it was already the twenty-ninth.

Think about self-defense less as what you do and more about what you don't do.

It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, "Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.

You don't have the power to control the people, situations, and circumstances around you. You only have the power to control yourself.

A priori, I want to go to bed with every pretty woman I meet. If I don't do it, it's because I'm afraid of being disappointed.

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Frei ist, wer der Vernunft gehorcht.

So temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

2.) Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

You actually don't need to go out to the porn sites.

but you ask anybody who's been to jail, and they'll tell you—a little is way, way better than a lot. Way better.

Try to be nice. And if you can't be nice, then shut the hell up and go stand in the corner with your drink and leave all the rest of us alone. Yes, yes, you're right and everyone else is wrong. That—like your immense talent—is a given. But just because you're right doesn't mean you should be a dick about it.

Because this is what I learned about myself that first day: My body is my body. I don't want anyone else in it. I don't want someone else controlling it, or trying to. It's my own little space in the world and the only space I have. And to have someone else in it, doing anything to it, sends me into a panic.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

It is easy out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

You know, Suzy, they ain't no way in the world to get in trouble by keeping your mouth shut. You look back at every mess you ever got in and you'll find your tongue started it.