Quotes About Self-control

Git, Ma said. They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

kind of tough on you divin' and drinkin'. Got to.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.

In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

It's not that feelings of anger don't arise. It's that the anger can be used, worked with, harnessed so that its energies can nourish patience, compassion, harmony, and wisdom in ourselves and perhaps in others as well.

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable." Not bad. You do it for inner reasons, not because someone is keeping score, or because you might be punished if you break the rules and get caught. You are marching to the beat of your own drummer.

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.

I couldn't just start killing people. That wasn't really my thing.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

You're afraid of your own anger.

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.