Quotes About Self-control

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

I can resist everything except temptation.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

I haven't had sex in so long I am considering becoming a born again virgin.

If you want to be a successful man you shouldn't follow these two things: alcohol and women.

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 9 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness...with good works. -1 Timothy 2:8-10

It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

We mustn't be lead by lust when we are searching for love!!

Women if you are a virgin, hold that. Reserve that. No need to rush and if a dude can't wait, forget him.

When we are free, we can look in the face of our cravings and desires and say "I don't have to satisfy you.

Steps to expressing anger: 1. Stop. Breathe. 2. Identify our judgmental thoughts. 3. Connect with our needs. 4. Express our feelings and unmet needs.

The one who knows when to stop, is free from the dangers of desire, and lives a long and happy life.

Peter Drucker famously said, "Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

If you've ever binge-watched a season or two of a TV show on Netflix when you should be studying, or finishing an assignment, or going to sleep, you know how an appealing distraction can trigger a self-defeating choice.

What's going on here? Why do our discipline and decisiveness fade at the end of the day, to the point where we opt to do nothing instead of doing something enjoyable or useful? It's not because we're inherently weak. It's because we're weakened. The

The more aware we are, the less likely any trigger, even in the most mundane circumstances, will prompt hasty unthinking behavior that leads to undesirable consequences.