Quotes About Self-control

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

I can't let myself act immature, in a way.

Learning how to contract your power and personality is of incredible importance.

I have the impression that every word is a word too many. I'm constantly holding myself back.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Passions may do good by chance, but there can be no merit but in the conquest of them.

Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile.

How can one remain free of every weakness, above all of the most deadly, of love?

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

I know you're scared," she said, smoothing an ice cube over her blistering fingers, "but you gotta grab hold of yourself. Every time you give in to your fears, you're lettin' that man win. And every time you do that, he gets stronger while you get weaker. Givin' into your fears will rob you blind. You'll end up a prisoner to that man for the rest of your life.

I know you're scared, but you gotta grab hold of yourself. Every time you give in to your fears, you're lettin' that man win. and every time you do that, he gets stronger while you get weaker. Givin' in to your fears will rob you blind. You'll end up a prisoner to that man for the rest of your life.

You can't run around town tryin' to get even with every person who does you wrong. Ain't enough hours in the day to do that. Besides, two wrongs don't make a right.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.