Quotes About Self-control

no insult can do us harm if only we do not say or do anything in return.

The best contraceptive is the word "no" repeated frequently.

The best contraceptive is the word no — repeated frequently.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Anger is like a disease. You can catch it. You can give it.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself, and can, therefore, regulate his own conduct when it shall be necessary to follow some rule of life. Such

Don't let it rule you: it will ruin you...

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.

I sometimes imagine there is a clerk behind a desk situated between the brain and the mouth. It is his job to examine utterances on their way out, and stamp them with approval or send them back for reconsideration. If such a clerk exists, mine must be very harried and overworked; and on occasion he puts his head down on the desk in despair, letting things pass without so much as a second glance.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the economy, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis

GOLDEN RULE: Never reply when angry, emotional, or buzzed.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor Frankl

If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better

Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.