Quotes About Self-control

You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change . . . it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... it's good one, even if it does resist learning.

Halte immer den Kopf hoch und lass die Fäuste unten. Ganz gleich, was man dir sagt, lass dich nicht in Wut bringen. Versuche zur Abwechslung einmal mit dem Kopf zu kämpfen... er ist ganz gut beieinander, auch wenn er nicht lernen will.

you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...It's a good one, even if it does resists learning.

Don't you feel yourself about anything - why, if we followed our feeling all the time we'll be like cats chasing their tails.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down

If we followed our feelings all the time we´d be like cats chasin´ their tails.

I avoid doing things on impulse, because I've learned that my feelings are too unreliable to trust.

I am seventy-five years old and I reached this venerable state by staying out of trouble, keeping my mouth shut and not volunteering, just like I learned in the Army.

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.

There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.

To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

I turned to run, but I didn't actually take a step, even though I wanted to. That wasn't the way I was raised. My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers.

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

What both halves of my heart-mind can agree on is that I am the one who chooses how to respond to the people and situations I encounter everyday.

NO MANDES MENSAJES CUANDO ESTÉS BORRACHA

Il faut choisir son régime et s'y tenir. C'est ce que je vais faire. Dès que j'aurai fini mon petit pain au chocolat.

All you do is not eat any food which you have to pay for. So at the start of the diet you're a bit porky and no one asks you out to dinner. Then you lose weight and get a bit leggy and shag-me hippy and people start taking you out for meals. So then you put a few pounds on, the invitations trail off and you start losing weight again.

People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.