Quotes About Self-control

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

Genetics, not lack of willpower, is the major reason why people differ in BMI. Success and failure, credit and blame, in overcoming problems should be calibrated relative to genetic strengths and weaknesses.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things.

The Buddha said anger has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip.

associate the self with control and with firm persistence through time, but on close inspection we turn out to be much less under control, and much more fluid, with a much less fixed identity, than we think.

I preferred not to respond. (Although several replies occurred to me.)

Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that.

It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.

It is difficult to insult the man you don't speak to.

You can hold out longer under torture if you focus on what you will say rather than what you won't. I've heard of men repeating the same phrase, over and over, long past the point where they could hear the questions anymore. By focusing on what you will say, you make it less likely you'll say that which you don't wish to.

A man has to set limits on his magic and on himself. Setting limits is part of being a man.

Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

Keep your temper. Nobody else wants it.

Your ability to choose became your superpower.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

To pry would involve being told an answer I didn't want to hear. So I didn't pry.

Calming himself, he drew in a long breath and reminded

It's always best to avoid strangling the person you're on a date with. No matter how crazy he makes you.

Women live quietly, I said. However angry or broken a woman might get, she does not think about beating someone, does she?

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster." —Friedrich Nietzsche

Pull yourself together, Selena, she chided. Fix this. End this. Write a better headline.

It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.