Quotes About Self-control

Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest the passions of the soul, and put a curb on your insatiable desires, and rid yourself of fear and anxiety, you are but pouring out wine for a man in a fever, and giving honey to a man who is bilious, and laying out a sumptuous banquet for people who are suffering from dysentery

For lack of rules (which the undisciplined sector of the young call freedom) 3 sets masters over one which are more tyrannical [D] than the teachers and trainers familiar from childhood – these masters are the desires, when they have broken out of prison, so to speak. Just

Lelaki, Gus, soalnya makan, entah daun entah daging. Asal kau mengerti, Gus, semakin tinggi sekolah bukan berarti semakin menghabiskan makanan orang lain. Harus semakin mengenal batas. Kan itu tidak terlalu sulit difahami? Kalau orang tak tahu batas, Tuhan akan memaksanya tahu dengan cara-Nya sendiri.

Mengapa yang tidak setuju tak dapat mengekang nafsu menghina? Antara kita sendiri, kalau hanya hendak menghina pun tidak semua bisa berdiri sama tinggi. Penghinaan yang bodoh hanya akan memukul diri sendiri.

Men, Gus, they love to eat. Who knows if leaves or if meat? That's all right, providing you understand, Gus, the more you advance at school does not mean the more you can eat other people's food. You must be able to recognize limits. That's not too hard to understand, is it? If people don't recognize such limits, God will make them realize in His own way.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

Your vicious enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unbridled soul.

The strong is not the one who overcomes people by his strength but the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

Going to bed without dinner is better than waking up in debt.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Break the leg of a bad habit.

Best lesson learnt - Silence is the greatest source of my Strength.