Quotes About Self-control

Freedom comes when you learn to let go. Creation comes when you learn to say no.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Inside me theres a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Cuando trabajamos para actuar en base no a nuestras emociones sino a nuestras elecciones, es cuando actuamos en Libertad

Cuando trabajamos para actuar en base no a nuestras emociones dijo a nuestras elecciones, es cuando actuamos en Libertad

Los odios vivifican y estimulan solo si es uno quien los gobierna; destruyen y desajustan cuando son ellos los que dominan.

Pedir perdón es humillante y no arregla nada. La solución no es pedir perdón, sino evitar los estallidos que hacen obligatorias las excusas

Denial, particularly self-denial, is its own kind of pleasure.

Complete abstention may be much easier than moderation.

All of us—even if we're strong at the core—will occasionally lose it when stress causes our brains to misalign.

I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

The largest problem is that we are so focused on what we deem the bigger temptations, that we are doing nothing at all about our response to the smaller ones. And it is these smaller temptations that eventually become devastating.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.