Quotes About Self-control

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.

Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.

I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.