Quotes About Self-control

What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.

is. I think our fundamental Anthropocene dilemma is that we have achieved global impact but have no mechanisms for global self-control. So, to the (debatable) extent that we are like some kind of global organism, we are still a pretty clumsy one, crashing around with little situational awareness,

To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what's right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.

Era la padronanza di sé che pietrificava e allarmava Pablo più di tutto, perché veniva dalla giovinezza e dalla bellezza, come quella che un tempo aveva conosciuto anche lui, e proprio per questo sapeva che non avrebbe conosciuto mai più.

If you don't really want to overdose on whipped cream, do not order a hot chocolate Viennois.

David Foster Wallace: Now, if I don't develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure unalloyed pleasure, and allow myself to go out and, you know, grocery shop and pay the rent? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to leave the

David Foster Wallace: Now, if I don't develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure unalloyed pleasure, and allow myself to go out and, you know, grocery shop and pay the rent? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to leave the planet.

We are all driven by our passions, and our task is to know when to submit to them and when to resist.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Abstinence is approved of God.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.

If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.

The only way to shut out the voice of god and the angels is to act out addictively whether it's alcohol or food or drugs, or behaviors...

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

Oh God, make me good, but not yet.

God, harden me against myself!

God defend me from myself.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.