Quotes About Self-control

My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.

Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.