Quotes About Self-control

It is so easy to avoid getting in a fist fight. If you're at a point where you're squaring up against someone in public, then it's on you. There are so many ways to not get in a fist fight.

Being disciplined and determined are my fitness mantra.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

He who angers you conquers you.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Sometimes people think that regulating their emotions means trying to act as if they don't have feelings. But, that's not the case. A realistic view of emotions shows that we're capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, but we don't have to be controlled by those emotions.

In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

Sometimes my brain is saying, 'Go wild on food,' and I'll want to pig out, but I'll tell myself, 'No.' You either want to win or you don't.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.