Quotes About Self-control

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.

Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

Anger and Folly walk cheek by jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.

When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better.

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.

If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control-top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated.

I will not make a scrapbasket of my mind.

God help me... that I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Let's live with that small pittance that we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad.

I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert.

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

Food is fuel, not therapy.

The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.

I think I just ate my willpower.

The toughest part of a diet isn't watching what you eat. It's watching what other people eat.

The path to obesity is so tasty.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

I am much more than one emotion. An emotion is something that comes, stays for some while, and will have to go away. I don't have to die just because of one emotion. I know I can handle an emotion with the practice of mindful deep breathing. I have survived emotions before.