Quotes About Self-control

My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.

So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people from their own temptations.

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.

When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.

Even if I do miss a shot, I found something to keep me calm and not get myself rattled. Once I missed one, I'd tense up and I'd miss the next one, too. So I found a peace within myself.

I drink Jack Daniel's. I drink tequila. But you do it in moderation.

I'm a terrible late-night snacker.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

I've been called all kinds of stuff, it's part of the game. You take it personal, then you're in trouble. It will affect you, your training. It comes with the territory.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

As he choked back more tears, James realised that every time he lashed out it was him that got hurt most.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave–but there's no need to be in the passing lane.

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.