Quotes About Self-control

When planning a habit change, expect to face temptation, especially when your willpower is at its weakest. Only when you understand your own limitations will you have a plan for overcoming them.

The truth is, our best intentions often fail in the harsh light of how much you desire to engage in the very habit you're trying to eliminate. In psychology terms, your super-ego is no match for your id.

This goes back to the conversation about ego depletion. Remember—you have a limited amount of willpower every day. When it's depleted, it's hard to control your impulses.

I just never learn: When you're about to finally get what you've been wanting, and when it's what you need like you've rarely needed anything, turn off your fucking phone.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment. -T. H. White

Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you;

I would never slam my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time.

I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.

Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

Those who know me well know that I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve like other people do. That's just the way I was raised.

Will I still get a slice of pizza? Will I drink a beer or two? Absolutely. You still have to live, but I try to do things in moderation.

While it's true a small treat won't blow your budget, indulging every day could - the same way a slice of cake probably won't hurt but, if you make it a daily habit, you may have trouble fitting in your pants.

When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Bad habits are easy to slip into and good habits are very easy to build. Don't allow yourself to do something that can destroy you.

Sometimes it doesn't take much to slip back into bad habits.

If you have your own money, you feel entitled to spending your own money how you'd like to, and that's a slippery slope.

One cheat meal is fine, but keep it at one, because if you do another, then it's a slippery slope.

But I've never been the type to be sloppy drunk in public.

My grades started dropping, and when I sleep all day and come to the gym I'd have a slow day. I needed rules, I guess, in boxing and to just help me, period.

I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It's still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, 'Be slow to anger.'

When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't.

I don't talk smack because I feel like it's a waste of energy.

I'm not one of those guys talking smack, because we've seen it catches up to you at some point.