Quotes about Self-control

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Take twice as long to eat half as much.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.