Quotes About Self-control

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.

I don't drink as much as I use to could.

I don't drink.

I don't drink no more.

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I'm not a huge drinker.

I'm not usually a drinker.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

I could never afford to be in a position where I could do something stupid, so I gave up drinking.

I have some drinks at night but that's it.

You don't hear about me being at parties, going out and gettin' drunk.

When I am full, I stop eating.

I am overfed, so when I am at home, I stop eating.

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I can be an emotional eater.

We can endure much more than we think we can, but that doesn't mean we should.

My whole thing is this - and this is how I am in real life - if you start talking to me crazy, I'm not engaging in that. I'm just not saying anything.

Conquer your lustful desires and your wisdom will be perfected.

I mention to him that I am fasting, but planning to take a day off. He cautions me to think about this very carefully. "If you take a day off, you'll have a day's guilty pleasure, which won't last long. But if you keep all thirty fasts, imagine how happy you will feel. What an achievement that will be.

SELF-CONTROL, which was universally required of samurai. The discipline of fortitude on the one hand, inculcating endurance without a groan, and the teaching of politeness on the other, requiring us not to mar the pleasure or serenity of another by manifestations of our own sorrow or pain, combined to engender a stoical turn of mind, and eventually to confirm it into a national trait of apparent stoicism.

Calmness of behavior, composure of mind, should not be disturbed by passion of any kind.

Kumazawa:—"When others blame thee, blame them not; when others are angry at thee, return not anger. Joy cometh only as Passion and Desire part.