Quotes About Self-control

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

A YOUNG STUDENT asked permission to go to a wedding. Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian (1872–1970) asked him if there might be women there dressed immodestly. The student replied that he had prepared a strategy: he wouldn't look. Rabbi Lopian turned to the student and said, "I'm already over eighty years old, and blind in one eye, yet despite this, I look!

WHY DO HUMAN BEINGS have cravings over and above their physical needs? It must be that God implanted these unnecessary cravings in us as a challenge. They give us an opportunity to exercise self-control, which is what enables us to rise to the highest spiritual levels. —RABBI ELIYAHU DESSLER (1892–1953)

The reality of the situation for an overweight or obese person is that they have OVER-enjoyed food. They need to understand that they have overindulged consistently for far too fucking long, and they are now hurting their very own lifespan. They do not need to enjoy every fucking meal like it was their last.

He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself doesn't become a monster.

You Will Be What You Decide to Be, Nothing Less, Nothing More

The economic crisis seemed to have taught them a lesson: that liberty without discipline was a formula for ruin.

There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

I became very patient. There are a lot of times when people who do not like you are talking about you and telling bad things on your face. In our personal life, we do get affected by such things.

You can have great freedom, but If you just have liberation without order, you're just bad, that's all. Those people are usually personality actors.

Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

We live in the new world where camera phones are everywhere, and you have to be on your best behavior at all times.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

Every day, I wake up and ask, 'Am I hungry?' If I'm physically hungry, I eat something that's hopefully good for me, and then do it again in a few hours. If I get a phone call I don't like, I'll say to myself, 'Is that the reason I want to eat something?' If it is, I try not to do it. It's literally a lifestyle.

I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.

The older I've gotten and the more I've played, I realize there is a time for emotion, but you have to pick and choose those times.

My biggest 'don't' from the past? Picking my face!

Every time I find a picture of him with other women, or read in magazines that he's involved with 'groupies,' I don't go and show up where he is making a huge scene and getting our faces put all over the TV and papers.

There's certain cakes you've got to have, maybe a pie here and there. But I know to not do it as much.

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

I've learned a lot just being around LeBron. People say things about him all the time, but he would never say anything back. That's what I learned from him: Don't retaliate to articles or pieces or to things that are said about me.