Quotes About Self-control

We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with temptation is not to grit our teeth and make up our minds that we will not do a certain thing. The key is to fill our minds with other things.

Blaise Pascal is reported to have said, "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Just because you are dealing with difficult people does not mean that you must become like them.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself togheter. And then everything falls apart anyway.

I have been in the bodies of starvers and purgers, gluttons and addicts. They all think their actions make their lives more desirable. But the body always defeats them in the end.

look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always.

I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

I am not sure I have the strength to resist this.

You are here for... the nice girls who want to scream but are afraid of breaking something...

Discipline over ability wins every time.

I do not masturbate often. Though at times I do so almost without being aware of it, actually.

A cool head. That's the secret to getting along in life, gentlemen. You

Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Graham Crackers were originally marketed as a cure for carnal strivings and masturbation.

Why is it some people can manage a thing like a Fitbit, while others go off the rails and allow it to rule, and perhaps even ruin, their lives?

When good-enough software is best [You95], you can discipline yourself to write software that's good enough—good enough for your users, for future maintainers, for your own peace of mind.

Hamish Alexander stood on Benjamin the Great 's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

Once you almost said—to a sneaky fellow from the Daily News, who was inquiring—you almost turned to him and said, Motherfucker, I am music. But a lady does not speak like that, however, and so you did not.

But darling, I am clean. Two years clean." "Cept the coke, weed, drink, pills . . ." "I said I'm clean, not a bloody Mormon!

It takes a lot of practice to ensure that a whole bottle of Cabernet and a pint of beer makes only a slight dent in your sobriety, but Howard felt he had reached this stage of accomplishment.