Quotes About Self-control

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it's sometimes even harder to let it out.

Shit, Delia said. I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do.

The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself.

It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.

Sometimes, even though you know something is a mistake, you can't stop yourself from going there.

I like to be in charge of my destiny.

Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody's business but your own. Do you have emotions? Strangle them.

There've been times when just because I kept my mouth shut and didn't say what I thought, I felt my strength increasing. Still, I don't seem to know what i think till I see what i say.

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.

In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.

You can do what you want but you cannot want what you want.

The thoughts you allow into your head are the code that programs your mind and body.

Sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored they go out for a stroll through my mouth. This is rarely a good thing.

From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.

What is the best government? — That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.

Man is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.

Wer Gutes will, der sei erst gut; Wer Freude will, besänftige sein Blut; Wer Wein verlangt, der keltre reife Trauben; Wer Wunder hofft, der stärke seinen Glauben.

And show me the man who is ill-tempered and yet is good enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy all around him!

The most effective self-control is not through willpower and exerting effort to stifle impulses and unwanted behaviors. It comes from effectively harnessing the unconscious powers of the mind to much more easily do the self-control for you.

When you're full, you are not as strongly tempted to eat foods outside the program. A stomach full of well-prepared high-carbohydrate, low-fat foods effectively curbs your tendency to cheat yourself out of great looks and great health. Meanwhile, you'll appear to be a tower of strength and discipline to those around you—and you'll feel like one.

If you must alleviate your frustration by eating, eat the right foods.