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Quotes About Self-control

I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.
~ Holly Madison
I'd been doing circuit training and Pilates for years, but I was not consistent with food. I'm not a disciplined person. I was indulging all the time.
~ Trisha Yearwood
I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.
~ Roy Harper
Well, having a pint is not going to stop you from winning a gold medal, but for me the question was 'is this going to help me win a gold medal?' if the answer was no, I'd cut it.
~ Chris Hoy
I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.
~ Johan Cruyff
You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.
~ Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
I may have punched walls when no one else was around.
~ Benji Madden
It would be against my nature if I shouted or banged the walls.
~ Raphael Varane
I feel like if you wanna be sober and you can't handle being around someone who drinks, then don't do it.
~ Brandi Glanville
I always feel like I just wanna go, and that's something that I'm learning every day - understanding to think more instead of just going because I see an advantage or I see that 'oh, I can make this move, I can make this shot.'
~ Pascal Siakam
Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.
~ Jeff Fisher
Discipline is remembering what you want.
~ David Campbell
I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.
~ Dave Gahan
I don't let my wardrobe dictate my diet.
~ Mary Helen Bowers
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
~ Samuel Richardson
If I go play 'Modern Warfare,' I'll find a hundred different things I'd like done differently. And I don't have the discipline to not express my opinion.
~ Bobby Kotick
Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.
~ Geena Davis
Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before the amygdala hijack. For some of us, it is butterflies in the stomach; for some, it is an increased heart rate, and for others, it is a feeling of agitation.
~ Elizabeth Thornton
Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.
~ Mother Angelica
Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
~ Tim Ferriss
I had to fight with myself not to hurt people, some serious mental wars.
~ Kimbo Slice
This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.
~ Rachel Hartman
Do not bring violence to the sword. Do not bring heartbreak or anger or passion. You hold in your hand the steel of rationality.
~ Rachel Hartman
Save your freedom for a rainy day," someone had written on the bathroom wall at Rudy's Bar in SoHo,
~ Rachel Kushner