Quotes About Self-control

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.

One may sleep as long as one prefers, but one should know that each hour of excess sleep is an hour lost for learning.

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

There's three ways not to see what you don't want to,' she told me. 'One is the coward's way and too damned painful. The other is to close your eyes forever which is the same as the first, when it comes to it. The third is the hardest and the best: You have to make sure only the things you can afford to see come before you.' *

It seems the door to permissiveness, the door to lewdness and vulgarity and obscenity swings only one way. It only opens farther and farther; it never seems to swing back. Individuals can choose to close it, but it is certain, historically speaking, that public appetite and public policy will not close it. No, in the moral realm the only real control you have is self-control.

Don't sleep with your drummer. Dumb-ass.

Drama dies without an audience