Quotes About Self-control

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

He that would govern others, first should beThe master of himself.

He that would govern others first should be master of himself.

Even Cynthia had to remember she was playing deaf and stop herself from crying out.

Another Cercle member remembered Sary advising him to masturbate instead of wasting his time with young women.

I'm in this state of one-way desire. I feel this desire swarming in my belly and running up my spine. But I have to constantly contain and compress it so that it doesn't betray me in front of others. Because I've already understood that desire is visible.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks.

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

We have to learn how to manage self-inflicted pressure.