Quotes About Self-control

The main challenge is food. I need to zip my mouth and not give in to cravings.

I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

I get into a zone, so if I start my day healthy, I'm going to eat clean all day. But if I start my day with an egg sandwich, you can bet I'm gonna mess it all up.

I'd like to continue to reduce the amount of balls I swing at outside the strike zone. I've been told I have a really low number, one of the lowest percentages in the game, but there's no reason it shouldn't be the lowest.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

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

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

I have never been drunk, but I've often been overserved.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.