Quotes About Self-control

at the outset it needs to be stressed that discipline means education. Discipline is essentially programmed guidance that helps people to develop internal self-control, self-direction, and efficiency. If it is to work, discipline requires mutual respect and trust. On the other hand, punishment requires external control over a person by force and coercion. Punishing agents seldom respect or trust the one punished.

It is tempting For the winner, who might have lost his life, To take all. And to destroy whatever cannot be taken. Let us pray they restrain themselves.

Vices are their own punishment

The Flies And The Honey-Pot A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

A world that demands high degrees of self-control, cynicism, and rationality—and is marked by extreme insecurity and competitiveness—justly sees in childhood its own counterbalancing virtues, qualities that have too sternly and definitively had to be surrendered in return for the keys to the adult realm.

The clue to dieting: ensuring (not always easy) one has more exciting things to do than eat.

ai nevoie de o anumit? for?? ca s? plângi, de încrederea c? pân? la urm? o s?-È›i poÈ›i st?vili lacrimile.

Am putea eventual defini maturitatea - È›elul nostru perpetuu evaziv - ca abilitatea de a da fiec?ruia ceea ce merit? atunci când o merit?, de a separa emoÈ›iile care trebuie imediat exprimate fa?? de cei care le iniÈ›iaz?, în loc de a fi îndreptate mai târziu c?tre nevinovaÈ›i.

enojo poco después de recibir una ofensa es la cosa más generosa que uno puede hacer, pues le ahorra al ofensor el florecimiento de la culpa y la necesidad de hacer bajar al ofendido de su torre almenada. Como

We could define maturity as the ability to give everyone what they deserve when they deserve it, to separate the emotions that belong to, and should be restricted to, oneself from those that should at once be expressed to their initiators, rather than passed on to later and more innocent arrivals. We were often not mature.

My mother used to say, Delia if sex ever rears its ugly head, close your eyes before you see the rest of it.

The ego makes a lousy master, but an extraordinary servant. Think of the ego as a frightened child who has been given a job far bigger than it can handle. It is not equipped to make big decisions

Thus, being dysregulated is not the same as being upset. You can be upset and still be quite able to make effective decisions, hold your tongue, or otherwise "control" yourself—manage to act in ways that help you achieve a better relationship, a better life, rather than simply escaping an unpleasant (or even awful) situation by doing something that hurts the other person, escalates the conflict, or, in general, makes things worse in the long run.

man can do what he wants," said Schopenhauer, "but not want what he wants.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Arjuna, ignore the onslaught of external stimuli and focus between your eyebrows, regulating inhalation and exhalation at the nostrils, to liberate yourself from fear, desire and anger, and discover me within you, I who receive and consume every offering of your yagnas.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, verses 27 to 29 (paraphrased).

Don't indulge your senses with bhoga, yoke your emotions with yoga.

It is not about being a hermit in the forest. It is about overpowering lust and attachment wherever you are.

Restraint is the key to regeneration and hence, also, sustainability.

When should we stop?' 'When your needs are met and before you fall prey to greed. Knowing when to stop is the hallmark of a good king,' said Krishna.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

The battle of the big belly is fought using the weapons of dietary changes, exercise, and most importantly, discipline.

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.

They get married, but their marriage will look quite different from marriage as the world understands it. Christian marriage will be undertaken "in the Lord" (I Cor. 7.39). It will be sanctified in the service of the Body of Christ and in the discipline of prayer and self-control (I Cor. 7.5). It will be a parable of the self-sacrificing love of Christ for his Church. It will even be itself a part of the Body of Christ, a Church in miniature (Eph. 5.32).