Quotes About Self-control

Aninka would not speak the words. They would, she felt, turn her tongue black: words of hatred and falsehood.

Maybe you are turning, Khaster. Maybe you're not as chaste and holy as you like to think.

He is an effete hedonist, with pretensions to power. He has far too little self-control to ever have it. He is a great one for foot-stamping, and always has been. Mother has indulged him, of course, which hasn't helped. He is the gilded one, the pretty one. Our father barely acknowledges his existence.

It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.

There's no getting around the fact that Robinson met these challenging days with maturity and courage,' she would write in 1956. 'It takes guts to keep your mouth shut and walk away. It is against every normal reaction of human behavior. But Robinson did it.

Anger, if not allowed to fester and grow out of proportion, is healthy, like a smoke alarm that if heeded can prevent all sorts of damage.

An angry frontal attack puts even the most invulnerable person on the defensive.

Sometimes it just doesn't seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.

You really ought to try reining in those hormones of yours. It's a radical concept for you, I'm sure, but just as a change of pace.

John Berryman, put it, "Something has been said for sobriety, but very little.

Girls like me more sober.

I'm just not a messy person... I don't look for pleasure in social media.

There's no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.

If your social media addiction comes between your relationship, you might want to quit.

I don't drink liquor, but I do like chocolate ice cream soda.

I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and nice cream soda. It's fantastic, but I have to be careful, or I'm going to get really fat.

If there is a situation, I try to take a step back, cool down, and solve the problem. Flipping out, freaking out, and being very rude about it is not going to help.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.

I feel like there's a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we've evened out. And I don't need to even that out because if somebody's being negative, I need to be the better person.

When I was 25 and I was told to eat 6 pieces of potato every day, someday it would be 8, someday it would be 10. Not that it's going to make a big difference. But now when I am told by my nutritionist that you get to eat 6 pieces a day, it's 6. Done!

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.