Quotes About Self-control

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.

When my stomach grumbled, I filled up on hamburgers, hot dogs, gyros, tacos, jerk chicken, pizza, and a side salad because I was watching my figure

You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. when you stay on the high road.

Take the reins of your life in your hands every day. Get up and put a smile on your face, and feel grateful for this gift in your life.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

I went and bought Guitar Towns by Steve Earle instead of listening to my better self...After a bit, and despite my new relationship with time, I began to experience impatience. One song at a time was taking too long. I began to wonder if there wasn't some way I could cram all this music in at once. Oh hell. That's called fucking.

no man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.46 Laissez-faire

The self-control of passion, the reshaping of his image of the world, the elimination of the sense of merit, the change of language, the effect of his profession on the structure of his life, all hint at the depth of this crisis.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

I'd rather be quiet and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.