Quotes About Self-control

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

He who holds his tongue in check controls both mind and body (James 3.2ff.). Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him.

If you master your mind, it will remain naturally concentrated, peaceful and aware. You will even be able to wander around in a crowd without being distracted and carried away by desire or aversion.

We all know that, when caught off our guard, there comes a dark temptation from the depths of our lower selves, something atavistic stirs, and we think thoughts, or even do deeds, of which we would never have believed ourselves capable.

He looked round at Mona, who looked back at him with non-committal eyes. She had better control of herself than either of the two men, and was like the core of calm at the heart of a cyclone.

So many unsaid things collect in the soul, so much exhaustion and irritation lie as a heavy burden on the psyche. And you must, you must unburden your spiritual world or risk a collapse. Sometimes you feel like screaming, but you control yourself and just babble some nonsense.

If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you.

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

Mack Bolan was not born to kill, as many of his comrades and superiors secretly believed. He was not a mechanically functioning killer-robot, as his sniper-team partners openly proclaimed. He was not even a cold-blooded and ruthless exterminator, as one leftist news correspondent tagged him. Mack was simply a man who could command himself.

Lesson: Don't hold on to something's going to pull you into a trap. If you're going to let go, let go early. Better yet, don't take the bait at all.

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation.

We are the warden who possesses the key to the prison cell of anger and pain, so we can walk out into the sunlight again.

When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.