Quotes About Self-control

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

Who advised counting to 10? Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the United States. In his book entitled A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life he wrote: "When angry, count to 10 before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.

Man tends to exercise all his powers. The impossible seems to him the only legitimate limit. A civilized man, however, is one who for various reasons refuses to do everything he can.

Despite what is taught today, easy sex does not solve every problem. Sex does not solve even sexual problems.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Quelle liberté nous reste-t'il si nos propres choix sont conditionnés par des émotions sur lesquelles nous n'avons aucune emprise ?

I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.

No, signore, non è possibile che sono ubriaco! Io lo so che non è bene essere ubriachi.

The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.

We will eventually come to realize that acting out our hatred only causes more hatred. Picking up the burning ember of ill will to throw at our enemy burns us before it burns them. Likewise, when we pick up the substance or behavior that allows us to temporarily avoid the pain, we play with fire. It may feel warm and fuzzy at first, but it will inevitably burn us to the core.

Financial discipline demands that you have a budget. Control your money. Do not let money control you. Discipline yourself to make sure that the flow of your money is gong in the right direction at all times.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Consequently not any self-control or self-limitation for the sake of specific ends, but rather a carefree letting go of one-self.… Not caution but rather a wise blindness.… Not working to acquire silent, slowly increasing possessions, but rather a continuous squandering of all shifting values.… This way of being has something naïve and instinctive about it and resembles that period of the unconscious best characterized by a joyous confidence: namely the period of childhood.

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Yaz?k ki erkekler, ??mart?ld?klar? zaman nerede durmalar? gerekti?ini ço?u zaman bilemezler.

Benim d???mda kimseye de öfkesini belli etmezdi. 'Bütün kötülü?ün bana' diye tak?l?rd?m. 'Anlam?yorsun Esat a?abey,' derdi. 'Onlar? öfkeme lay?k bulmuyorum. Öfkem bana ait bir ?ey. Yak?n hissetmedi?im birine nas?l gösteririm onu. Onlara da size davrand???m gibi davranm?? olurum. As?l o zaman kötülük etmi? olurum size.

It's too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won't happen after all—or maybe it will only happen to other people. That kind of thinking is part of what it means to be adolescent.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

How easy for those who do not bulge To not overindulge!

Vacuum is all potent because all containing. In vacuum alone motion becomes possible. One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.