Quotes About Self-control

After lots of lectures, warnings, punishments and so on, Eddy had decided to watch his step for a while.

I can't make myself be happy but I can always make myself not be miserable. - Dr. Lou Welcome

The root of all sin is found in the runaway indulgence of God-given desires.

FROM BIRTH, PARENTS MUST ASSUME CONTROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN. During the early years, we certainly do not want to destroy the child's natural drives, but we must constrain him to exercise temperance and self-control.

If I slept with everyone I was supposed to have, I wouldn't have the energy to eat.

If left to my own devices, though, I'd also eat Ben & Jerry's brownie batter ice cream until I weighed six hundred pounds, but somehow I manage to stop myself when my pants start to get a little tight around the middle. But to each his own. And if you're going to do something that might piss off your partner, you might as well have science on your side.

Our best trading days are when we don't trade.

There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why

Liberty did not on any account mean license.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.

There was no way I could think it over without a second Calvados. After thinking it over, I decided that the really prudent thing was to go out and buy another bottle.

deep inside each one of us is the desire to write and control our own script of life.

Children raised by the I-Can't-Say-No parent often grow up too quickly, suffer from chronic boredom, think that rules don't apply to them, become poor money managers, are unable to cultivate healthy emotional boundaries with others, and have an unhealthy attachment to you in adulthood.

Money and sex are two of the most challenging aspects of life to declutter, but extremely worth the trouble.

being quick to anger sure ain't a fruit of the Spirit.

Forgiveness is not contingent upon what someone else does or doesn't do.

It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

I don't like to abuse alcohol-anything you abuse will abuse you back.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

He… got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.

A closed mouth catches no flies.