self-control Quotes

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

Character is simply habit long continued.