Quotes About Self-control

In another experiment, people are first depleted by a task in which they eat virtuous foods such as radishes and celery while resisting the temptation to indulge in chocolate and rich cookies. Later, these people will give up earlier than normal when faced with a difficult cognitive task.

I'm in a very good mood today, and my System 2 is weaker than usual. I should be extra careful.

Unfortunately, she tends to say the first thing that comes into her mind. She probably also has trouble delaying gratification. Weak System 2.

Memorizing and repeating digits loosens the hold of System 2 on behavior, but of course cognitive load is not the only cause of weakened self-control. A few drinks have the same effect, as does a sleepless night. The self-control of morning people is impaired at night; the reverse is true of night people.

Only firm intent and alert awareness can muster the will-power required to liberate yourself from the simian clutches of the emotional mind, which clings to the human ego as the proverbial 'monkey' of drug addiction clings to addicts.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.

One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.

The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.

Sow a thought and reap an act; sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a destiny." Everything starts within. Anger

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

Cake!" said Tubby Ted, "I'd give hundred pounds for a piece of cake!" "The only hundred pounds you HAVE are around your waist!" said Prentiss.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.

We are being taught by everything around us to have dessert before dinner." Now we are paying for our lack of knowledge and discipline.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Act your wage.

It is human nature to want it and want it now; it is also a sign of immaturity. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn't the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don't do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.