Quotes About Self-control

Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

The most difficult kind of strength -- restraint.

If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!

I had a hard time looking at Freya without staring. There really wasn't anything safe to focus on – her eyes, her lips, her belly button. I silently scolded myself, This is Blitzen's mom! This is my aunt! I decided to focus on her left eyebrow. There was nothing entrancing about a left eyebrow.

Even if she were going crazy, she didn't want to look like she was going crazy.

Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma'at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling.

I am a monster. Don't say that. It is okay. I will be good monster. Then you will not have to be mad.

Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.

and how positively full and brimming-to-burst with words I am. This is what Mrs. Bullwhyte would call one of my extended flights of fancy. She said that I am terribly prone to them and often told me that I should rein myself in or the world was bound to disappoint me.

I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or following a logical point when my mind qas off chasing rabbits in a thousand directions.

I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make sure that one was me.

We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true 'dignity' is.

Derek looked around, like he was searching for something to use. Then he stripped off his shirt. I tried not to look away. Not that he looked bad without his shirt. The opposite, actually, which is why...Let's just say friends are really better when they're fully clothed.

Just because someone asks you a question, don't you think you have to answer.

Let those to whom God gives the gift of abstinence know that they shall receive their proper reward

Una de las mejores cualidades de aquél era su habilidad para mantenerse callado cuando debía hacerlo.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.