Quotes About Self-control

I don't normally get too excited. I just - yeah, I just try and keep it pretty simple, and that's just my personality, really.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

I've been observing Ramadan during all the years I've been in football. It's very important that you eat well. It's important that you eat the right food because you can gain weight or you can have less food in your body.

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.

I crave clean food, but do have an occasional chocolate bar or ice cream.

As long as I don't overindulge, it's OK for me to eat burgers and ice cream occasionally. As for alcohol? I've never tried it.

The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.

There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence around the fence.

when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading "occupied.

a cut cannot heal, unless you leave it alone. I'll open mine daily, leaving bones exposed

I will form good habits and become their slave.

When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of us and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.

When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is

As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.

Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.

The Scroll Marked VI Today I will be master of my emotions.