Quotes About Self-control

Dieting is not a piece of cake.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I'm just not good with alcohol. And I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

She promised herself she wouldn't do it even as she reached out, her fingers trembling, and adjusted the side mirror to look back.

When something is tiny, it's easy to do—which means you don't need to rely on the unreliable nature of motivation.

Yaddeechachasi Vasheekartu Jagadeken Karmana. Paraapavaadashaastreebhyo Gaam Charanteem Nivaarya. If you want to overpower the entire world merely by just one action, then put restraint upon your tongue speaking ill of others.

Growth and decay is always in one's own hands. [It is an obvious statement. Nobody can ensure any body's growth if that person is destroying oneself. And if one is determined to grow nobody can cause that person's destruction.]

If you want to overpower the entire world merely by just one action, then put restraint upon your tongue speaking ill of others.

This is the problem with "long termism," a problem yoga identified more than two thousand years ago. When life's rap on the knuckles is not immediate enough to react as a deterrent, or the reward does not come fast enough to act as a spur, we tend to fell and act like children. We seek immediate gratification.

If the practice of today, damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves in thinking the greatest means to be best, when it should be the fittest.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

Man, being the strongest of all animals, differs from the rest; he was obliged to be his own domesticator; he had to tame himself.

One of the things I pride myself on is that I don't cuss. It's extremely rare, but when I do it kind of adds to the character.

My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else's fault. It's their flaw.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

I don't have anything fresh in terms of raw foods or salad after 4 P.M. And no food after 7 P.M.