Quotes About Self-control

Only I am sure I met no one on the way, because if I had I should have had to master myself, walk like a woman in her senses, even give a greeting. And when you have to, you can.

For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control. ("The Wendigo")

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection it, will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

God, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

anger, in and of itself, is a good thing, within reason, but it will be your greatest enemy if you don't learn to control it!

At worst, they were vile creatures who needed to be wiped from the face of the earth. At best, such behavior shows a dangerous lack of self-control. The first business of a warrior is self-restraint

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends — you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in.

If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue

In these early anonymous seasons, God graciously grants us the opportunity to wrestle with our appetites before other lives are at stake, to struggle with our passions privately before moral collapse affects the innocent publicly.

I ultimately bought two of the five items—the high-top sneakers and the leather jacket—and for days after the purchase, I was in turmoil. Not just because I'd still spent over a thousand dollars, an insane amount, in my view. But also because I should've gotten that belt.

Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.

She was to be a fine young man, at least in the cut of her clothing. Her manner, however, was not so easily stitched into masculinity. According to his lordship, she still needed to deepen her voice, be less careful with the placement of her arms and legs, and now also take up more space. No easy task since she had spent most of her life learning to control any excess gesture or movement.

Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.

The first discipline modernitys originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

Se tua mão é motivo de escândalo, corta-a; afirmativa enérgica que seria um absurdo se tomada ao pé da letra. Significa, simplesmente, a necessidade de destruir em si todas as causas de escândalo,

pois é preciso mais coragem para vencer a si mesmo do que para vencer aos outros.

Get it clear in your mind: CIGARETTES DO NOT FILL A VOID. THEY CREATE ONE! These bodies of ours are the most

I don't answer. I'm not staging a rebellion here. I stay quiet because I don't want to break down, and I learnt a long time ago that, sometimes, the only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

My greatest weakness is... food. If it looks like it's going to taste nice, it goes in my face - simple as that.

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.