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Quotes About Self-control

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.
~ Orson Scott Card
You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.
~ Dennis Miller
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal.
~ Dave Attell
The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own
~ Billy Joe Shaver
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
~ Betty Ford
There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
~ Carrie Fisher
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~ Kerry Packer
Don't eat till you're full, eat till you're tired.
~ Andrew Zimmern
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
~ Joe E. Lewis
A closed mouth catches no flies.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Holding back is so close to stealing.
~ Neil Young
I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like "shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.
~ Marc Maron
I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.
~ Martin Luther
Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.
~ Ahmed Mostafa
He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.
~ Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy
~ E.J. Eisman
When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.
~ Rebecca McKinsey
Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
I really want to punch you right now. Maybe even break your nose." She rolled her eyes upward, seeking calm. "But I won't because I like this dress.
~ Zoe Forward, His Witch to Keep
. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.
~ Robin Brande, Fat Cat
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
~ Hunter S. Thompson