Quotes About Self-control

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost.

Don't be hungry when you go shopping, but don't overeat, either.

If you wait too long between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, you're more likely to be ravenous and overeat and/or make poor food choices.

It was always important to me to be confident and strong with myself. It didn't happen overnight, but I've learned that the only way you can start to control things is if you feel a certain way about yourself.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

The heroes of the Iliad, favourites of the gods, golden and predatory, had scorned the weak and downtrodden. So too, for all the honour that Julian paid them, had philosophers. The starving deserved no sympathy. Beggars were best rounded up and deported. Pity risked undermining a wise man's self-control. Only fellow citizens of good character who, through no fault of their own, had fallen on evil days might conceivably merit assistance.

You can't let buffoons rule your life.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

The angry man will defeat Himself in battle As well as in life.

But she would not break her discipline to comfort herself in a shallow way. Would no more break discipline with her Self than she would her covenant with God.

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again. Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating large portions of puddings. Every time I heard her opening how she could not carry anything heavy, I thought sourly "except yourself".

Let those others sing of your skill and courage you keep it still within.

What's the alternative to being right? Maybe it is being well. Not trying to control others, but practicing self-control and self-containment.

In short, we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it is depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation—whether that's resisting a cookie, solving a puzzle, or doing anything else that requires effort. "The

no thans mommy i ate enough ham for one say.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.