Quotes About Self-control

Yes I am a big time foodie, but I make sure to eat a little less than my actual hunger.

Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'

Have I been overly aggressive in some sparring sessions? Yes, I have. There's things, there's punches and things I've thrown that's been too aggressive and I've gotten to where I've had to tell myself, yeah, I shouldn't have done that, kind of thing.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

If you don't do yoga, it doesn't mean that you can't have a sense of detachment, which means not attaching yourself to your thoughts or your emotions.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

All kids need to figure out how to manage their time as a young adult.

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.

Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don't do it in real life.

If I started talking trash right now, people would just tell me to shut up, 'That's not you, Stephen - be quiet!'

I haven't done no trash talking. And, I don't do trash talking.

I don't like to talk trash. I'm a cool girl.

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

My biggest tip is this... treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn't have a chocolate bar in the morning and then a double chocolate bar at lunch and then some chocolate before dinner. I was essentially eating a loaf of bread a day. And that doesn't work for me.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy.

The main thing to remember is that things like deep-fat-fried foods, or the delicious sugary buttery cakes like Mary Berry bakes, are treats.

Traditional economics is based on imaginary creatures sometimes referred to as 'Homo economicus.' I call them Econs for short. Econs are amazingly smart and are free of emotion, distraction or self-control problems. Think Mr. Spock from 'Star Trek.'

I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite.