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Quotes About Self-control

What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you're going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And if you eat enough of those souls, they begin to corrupt you until you become one of them. Everyone knows that. (Kat) Only if you're stupid. I'm two hundred years old and I haven't turned yet. You just have to learn to hum a lot so you don't hear their bullshit echoing in your head. (Damien)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you can't improve the silence, you shouldn't be speaking. -Hauk
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In time, you won't need it to do that. You'll be able to access that part of yourself anytime you need to. But for now, you'll require a tool to help you channel all that teenage hormonal ADD that's bouncing around and through you." – Death
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Like this cake. It's really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
His mom always said that 90 percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You really can't help being an asshole, can you?" "I probably could, but it's not worth the effort.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.
~ Decca Aitkenhead
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
~ Dodie Smith
I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.
~ Dominique Wilkins
Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.
~ Dov Davidoff
I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.
~ Elise Valmorbida
That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.
~ Eric Heisserer
Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.
~ Erin Heatherton
Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.
~ Frederick Lenz
I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things
~ Max von Sydow
I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
If there is anything in your life that takes away your happiness, you have all the power you need to change it.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.
~ Mike Binder
I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.
~ Mindy McCready
Shut your damn mouth.
~ Nick Offerman
Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
~ Petrarch