Quotes About Self-control

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.

I really love to exercise, which is good because I'm not one of those girls who can eat whatever they like and stay the same size.

I track my food, so it's easy for me to see what I'm eating, and if I want to push myself and get into great shape, I'll just cut down on portion sizes.

What is clear to me is that social media is a skill and you have to keep working at it. But it hasn't taken over my life. I think I use it, it doesn't use me.

I lost over 100 pounds, so I'm even angrier than ever. I don't stuff my feelings anymore with food. Skinny girls are funny.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.

I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus-by spiritual strength-conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.

I often use alcohol as an artificial check on my skills.

And there was this jerk named Dwayne who kept saying, 'Go on, have a beer. You know you want one. One little beer's not going to hurt ya. You haven't had a drink for three years. You can handle it.' He looked at me again. You know? I nodded. Caught me when I was vulnerable. You know, when I was still breathing.

Anybody who tries to make you mad and stop you from thinking is not your friend. There's a lot to be said for thinking

the hardest person you will ever have to lead is yourself.

If a goal is really important to me, I discipline myself in order to achieve it.

New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we're Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there's no stopping us until we're licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we're really not capable of: restraint and math.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs. (Page 11)

Ne quid nimis

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. By telling himself so often enough he convinces himself, because when he is alone he carries on an inner dialogue with himself which it is important to keep under proper control. Evil communications corrupt good manners.1 We must keep silence as far as we can and only talk to ourselves about God, whom we know to be true, and thus convince ourselves that he is.

Comme on se gâte l'esprit, on se gâte aussi le sentiment.

Chase realized that when someone he was drinking with was telling him that he was drinking too much and that he needed to get his act together, then he was bellying out on the bottom.