Quotes About Self-control

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

High time, my girl - high time! Moderation in all things, remember. That's the plan"Let your moderation be known unto all men!"

I am a restrained person. Otherwise my heart would race past my tongue to pour out everything. Instead I mumble, I gnaw myself. I lose hope. And my mind is burning.

You can have your rich table and life flowing over the cup. I need one food: I must not violate Elektra.

I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self-control, another kind of human self than one based on dissociation of inside and outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self.

The idea that you could think and choose how to be, instead of simply reacting

The strange boy looked astonished. "Why don't you fight then?" He asked crossly. "Because if I hit you back, I'd be no better than you are. I'd be just as rotten and worthless and I'd have no right to be free!

She reminded Kevin again that she had forced herself to turn and walk away from him when everything in her wanted to stay.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

Part of being grown up is acting the way you're supposed to act, even if you don't feel like it. Can you be grown up for me?

To my surprise, nineteenth-century folk, always presented as Puritan and narrow-minded, turned out also to be energetic, tough, and sociable. It made me realize that there are major social and personal advantages to be had if people are capable of controlling themselves, being disciplined, and, if necessary, sacrificing themselves for the greater good. In that respect, we people of today might be able to learn more from the Victorians than we think.

This tendency we all have to favor our present-self at the expense of our future-self is called temporal discounting.* We are willing to take an irrationally large discount to get a reward now instead of waiting for a bigger reward later.

When we make in-the-moment decisions (and don't ponder the past or future), we are more likely to be irrational and impulsive.* This tendency we all have to favor our present-self at the expense of our future-self is called temporal discounting.

If our goal is to lose twenty pounds in six months, we can plan how to achieve that by imagining it's six months from now and we've lost the weight. What are the things we did to lose the weight? How did we avoid junk food? How did we increase the amount of exercise we were doing? How did we stick to the regimen?

Take twice as long to eat half as much.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.

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

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

I am not a heavy drinker, I've never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.

I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.

I don't think you can let comments affect you too much as then you are not doing your job properly.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.