Quotes about Self-control

Your mind is your only strength; your reason is your only power.

Someone despises me. That's their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem. Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them. Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show off my own self-control, but in an honest, upright way.

How cruel—to forbid people to want what they think is good for them. And yet that's just what you won't let them do when you get angry at their misbehavior. They're drawn toward what they think is good for them. —But it's not good for them. Then show them that. Prove it to them. Instead of losing your temper.

What a shame that the mind can command the face to assume whatever look or expression it pleases, but cannot command itself and govern its own thoughts.

The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.

i. Nothing can happen to me that isn't natural. ii. I can keep from doing anything that God and my own spirit don't approve. No one can force me to.

Consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed

The best revenge is to be unlike your enemy.

This shows how a man who practices exercise and self-control can preserve some of his original vigor even when he grows old.

Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.