Quotes About Self-control

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of the play, you really start to have fun.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

Avoid running at all times.

You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.

No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.

I can't sleep easy if there's an open container of savoury snacks in the house.