Quotes About Self-control

I love chocolate, but it's bad.

Every time I say I'm going on a diet I end up eating chocolate.

If anybody tells me to stop eating chocolates or pizzas, I won't be able to do it.

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

I get chubby real quick.

When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.

During that 2011 offseason, as the debate around 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and DOMA was heating up on social media, I had to pull out every last ounce of self-control to keep myself from retweeting something in support of marriage equality.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.

Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.

I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.

I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse.

A strong police presence keeps individuals involved in 'street life' from triggering the most severe penalties of the law by providing a surrogate for the self-control and parental oversight that they lack.

I was way past the age when it's fun to swear at people you can't hurt.

She looked as if she were about to burst into tears, but she was wonderful at catching the ball of her own mood in mid-air.

MAY 1 THE VERY PURPOSE of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

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I'm the one who ought to get angry," said Fiver. "But I'm no good at it, that's the trouble.

Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.

We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.

The first fact was that if Heidi hadn't picked that particular day to try out a little autoeroticism, Halleck would have been on top of his job and his responsibility as the operator of a motor vehicle

So perhaps the best thing to do is simply be aware of how much venting is okay and how much is too much.