Quotes About Self-control

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.

Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don't starve, because I eat very much.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

A golden rule? Do not come food shopping when you're starving hungry and craving stuff. You'll fill your basket with all the naughty things you probably wouldn't eat.

Many people think that dieting is starving yourself. But that is never a right way to control your diet.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

I never made any public statements. At least, I tried never to make any public statements.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

Even if sometimes I'm not happy with the way I'm playing the game before, during the changeover I have to stay calm. Otherwise the next game will be worse.

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

If I step on a scale, I won't eat for five months.

As Ludwig von Mises puts it in this seminal book, modern man "must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.