Quotes About Self-control

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

She despised people who gave way to self-pity. Weeping wouldn't do anyone any good.

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They're just mental states.

No one ever teaches us how to change from an angry to a non-angry person. No one ever tells us that anger causes 'you' suffering and is not helpful. That it stops 'your' peace of mind and everybody else's. It's never talked about in a practical way, only a moralistic way.

You'll flatten your debt and develop a natural resistance to spending more than you have for things you don't want to impress people you don't like (to paraphrase Robert Quillen).

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Mortimer had maxed three credit cards stocking the cave with canned goods and medical supplies and tools and everything a man needed to live through the end of the world. There were more than a thousand books along shelves in the driest part of the cave. There used to be several boxes of pornography until Mortimer realized that he'd spent nearly ten days in a row sitting in the cave masturbating. He burned the dirty magazines to keep from doing some terrible whacking injury to himself.

Brasley still drank too much and liked his women, but at least he paced himself now, walking the path to self-destruction instead of sprinting down it at full speed.

Never make a decision while in the state of anger.

Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.