Quotes About Self-control

My message is simple: take control of your life

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

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.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.