Quotes About Self-control

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end.

Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

I mean, if a man's really master of his house, he doesna need to tell folks so.

Is the brain designed to make us flare in anger when we think we are being attacked? Fine—but most of us learn to count to ten and find alternatives to beating the other guy with a cudgel. An appreciation of how dissonance works, in ourselves and others, gives us some ways to override our wiring. And protect us from those who can't.

When in doubt, shut up.

Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.

My mind is a dangerous place to be alone without supervision.

When I get nasty like that, it's like I'm standing outside of myself and I know I'm being terrible and irrational but there's nothing I can do about it.

You gotta ignore people until they get in line.

Alas, we can't control other people. We can only control ourselves.

I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it.

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake —add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem — and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow... The experience of appetite in this equation is an experience of anxiety, a burden and a risk; yielding to hunger may be permissible under certain conditions, but mostly it's something to be Earned or Monitored and Controlled.

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

When you get the urge to do a cartwheel in the supermarket, say something inappropriate in a meeting or run a red light, this is the part of the brain that jumps in and reminds you not to be so stupid. It's a useful feature in all kinds of situations and saves us a lot of time and potential embarrassment, but the downside is that it does the same job for ideas, shutting down thoughts that are a bit out there but which might just work.

Whoa, cowboy! I don't have phone sex on the first phone call.

Before she turned around to face him, she wiped away the tears that had started down her cheeks. Nancy didn't cry much, but when she did, she cried in private.

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

Happiness takes an effort of will,

Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?

I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at twenty.