Quotes About Self-control

I do have a lot of fire in me and could use some lessons on how to handle things more calmly.

I had to grow up, but I think I've grown up a lot. I think I'm handling myself well.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

And a bit of discipline never did 14-year-olds any harm.

People with hatred have always something to get off their chests, but I wasn't ready to be that drain.

I could eat healthier; I could drink less.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I like eating the right way, doing things the right way. I never had to have my dad come and say, 'Hey, you have to get back to the gym' or, 'Hey, you're eating wrong.'

You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.

It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

There are going to be highs and lows throughout a career, and you have to try and level it out. Don't get too high and carried away when things are going well, but don't get too low when things aren't happening.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

Nobody can be a real princess--do not imagine you have yet been anything more than a mock one--until she is a princess over herself, that is, until, when she finds herself unwilling to do the thing that is right, she makes herself do it. So long as any mood she is in makes her do the thing she will be sorry for when that mood is over, she is a slave, and not a princess.

For our Selves will always do pretty well if we don't pay them too much attention. Our Selves are like some little children who will be happy enough so long as they are left to their own games, but when we begin to interfere with them, and make them presents of too nice playthings, or too many sweet things, they begin at once to fret and spoil.

Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do something toward the taking of it. She was able in no small measure to order her own thoughts. Without any theory of self-rule, she yet ruled her Self. She was not one to slip about in the saddle, or let go the reins for a kick and a plunge or two. There was the thing that should be, and the thing that should not be; the thing that was reasonable, and the thing that was absurd.

When a man begins to abstain, then first he recognizes the strength of his passion; it may be, when a man has not a thing left, he will begin to know what a necessity he had made of things;

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system

Su memoria [de Winston] fallaba mucho, es decir, no estaba lo suficientemente controlada.