Quotes About Self-control

Have you noticed when you go on a diet the first thing you lose is your temper.

I haven't killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

If you're just sitting around home it's just too easy to sit around and smoke pot all day and never get anything done.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion that's damned me more than once. But I just can't hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.

Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!