348 Quotes About Self-control

If you want financial success, you need the self-control to waste little time on fun things that don’t contribute to your personal and professional development. If you want happy and healthy children, you need the self-control to spend a great deal of time with them (thus depriving yourself of time to do what you want to do for yourself). If you want to be physically fit, you need the self-control to eat less fattening, less delicious foods and to exercise regularly.

If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

To take back your power in any given situation, focus on the things you can control. The thoughts you choose to think is usually the best place to start.

When one has control over themselves, they are fully equipped to help others and face all the realms of life.

Whether you realize it or not, you are in control of what you think. It's up to you to determine which fluttering thoughts take root and which ones you kick out. Cultivate a mind that can learn to discriminate truth.

Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your body?'And why are you doing this to me? is the awful, selfish thought that is left unsaid.'Because I can,' she answers, and I shiver as she unconsciously echoes chastity-ruth.'But-''Because it's my body,' she cuts in. 'Isn't it?

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

People who learn primarily from reading and principally communicate through writing generally possess a highly developed internal world, a more refined sense of self-control, and a greater sensitivity to honoring social boundaries.

The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a test of willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat as much as I wanted after sunset. But then the strange thing was that after fasting all day long, I tended to feel full with just a small snack.