Quotes About Self-control

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.

Occasionally, I'll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it. It's hard not to. Usually, I wish I didn't.

I read every review online, and I want to respond to those, but I resist the urge to do that.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.

I used to have an online-shopping problem.

I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

I always like to play. It is useful for me; I know how to regulate myself.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

I'm not addicted to books. I can stop reading once I've finished one more chapter.

Maturation is fundamentally the process of learning to discipline one's self and to carry personal responsibility.

Remember rule number one - stick to the truth, but don't volunteer anything... What's rule number two? See rule number one.

Her hands trembled as she pressed them together to make them stop, for Kapugen had taught her that fear can so cripple a person that he cannot think or act. Already she was too scared to crawl. Change your ways when fear seizes, he had said, for it usually means you are doing something wrong.