Quotes About Self-control

The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

There is only one thing you should know. Conquer yourself.

Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Someone else's action should not determine your response.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.