self-control

Men were taught self-control about everything from their diet to how to resist the “painted woman.”

Experts suggest that we need to think of self-control as a “muscle”; something we can train in order to increase our willpower.

The type of self-control needed for dieting is very different from that needed for exercising.

Importantly, after using self-control to resist one temptation, your brain has less energy to resist the next one.

Hence, in the long run, dieting requires the use of much more self-control than exercising.

A certain amount of his ill-humour vented, Tressan made an effort to regain his self-control.

When this sudden discovery leaped out upon him, for a moment he lost his self-control.

It was a great fault of his, or perhaps a misfortune—for he could not help it—this want of self-control in moments of emergency.

She felt that the time was opportune to plant the seed of self-control within the young heart.

This was a fearful task for one like him, but he would strive for self-control just as one throws down a tree to bridge a torrent.