Quotes About Self-control

What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.

Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

I like a round nail and not too long. I like to have control of what I do with my hands. I don't want hands longer than my legs.

I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

I feel like you can eat everything that you want in moderation.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as opposed to speaking out.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

She told herself the mantra of all addicts: that she could always quit tomorrow.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Epictetus was a living example of the Stoic philosophy he embraced, which placed great value on the dignity of the self and a graceful acquiescence to those things over which the self had no control.

Lucius, what do you fear? That we shall be tortured and killed? Every living thing must die, and there are things far worse than the suffering of physical pain. How much more terrible if we should comport ourselves disgracefully and lose our self-respect; then we should truly be damaged, and the harm would have been inflicted by ourselves.

Self-discipline must be the hardest principle to master. Second is tolerance and then acceptance.