Quotes About Self-control

I really needed to get around to setting that one-second delay on my mouth.

If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn't have time to think about anything else.

being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me

Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You only hurt yourself.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

Therefore conquering pride, restraining riotous living, crucifying the flesh, these are great beyond all the power of men.

Hence one should follow the advice of the hermit to whom a youth complained that he rather often experienced imaginations concerned with lusts and other sins and to whom the old man replied: "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head. But let them only fly and do not let them build nests in the hair of your head. Let them be thoughts and remain such; but do not let them become conclusions."32

I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting, but I try not to look like it.

A woman doesn't just wake up one morning and decide to have an affair. No. The affair happens when day after day she fails to put on the brakes with her thoughts, fantasies, and sexual boundaries.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. Which wolf will win, grandfather? asks the young boy. Whichever one I feed, is the reply.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22)

Whoever keeps his mouth shut when he realizes that he is wrong is wise and he who holds the mouth even if he is right is married.

How can you say you love and miss me if you never call or try to see me but I won't let my feelings get the best of me I'm gonna do the mature thing and just walk away.

I look out the window, a jammed-up feeling growing inside. Am I going to cry? Or is it something else? My eyes are dry, but I feel like something wants to burst out of me. I focus on the empty road outside. Hold back. Hold it in. Keep your mouth shut, Jenna. Keep it shut. Shut. Shut.

Hé Colin... Ik geloof dat je weer eens slordig met je zaad bent omgesprongen.