Quotes about Self-control

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Portion control is not an option for me. I like mass quantities, so I have to create healthy meals that I love but won't feel guilty about eating.

A glutton is one who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it's even just one person, you've got to be the boss of yourself.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.

Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.