Quotes About Self-control

I'm trying to teach my son mercy and restraint," Dylan said to Crosby, his voice guttural. "Because I don't have any myself.

I quickly imagined that I could reach my hand into my chest, yank out that awful feeling, place it on an invisibl ecloud of air right in front of me, then push it away. Push it away

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

And somehow I had always resisted driving very slowly back and forth in front of his house. Willpower? No. I figured his front gate was equipped with security cameras and I would just be embarrassing myself. And this street was definitely not on the bus line.

Show me you have one iota of self-restraint." "I will," I said quickly. "Stay away from her." "Okay." "Keep your hands off her." "I'll try." He scowled at me. "I will," I said. He wiggled his fingers at me. "And it might help public relations with Lori's pop if you put on a shirt and quit walking around here like sex on a stick.

And strangely, even though he still stared at the store, I felt like I had more self-control then he did right then.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours—days, if I have to.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

Libby's on-again, off-again boyfriend—who had a fondness for punching walls and extolling his own virtues for not punching Libby

I count all the way to sixty, a stupid smile plastered on my stupid face. I will not get detention. I will not get expelled. I will be good. I will be quiet. I will be still.

I've learned if you're ever angry enough to hit somebody, don't do it. Cool down and get yourself a pistol.

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

Ne doutez pas de moi, laissez-moi la force de me vaincre.

Forget your anger, for she's hard to guide any way but her own.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

better keep your mouth shut and seem stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

S]he takes a killer. Sometimes she takes two, never more than two, because some things are good for us but too much is suddenly bad.

The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.

It came to Daffy then, how easily the worst in oneself could rise up and strike a blow. How even the most enlightened man had little power over his own darkness.

Have you ever eaten something appalling for breakfast, something really bad for you, a chocolate cake, and just thought, Fuck it, this is bad, I'd better keep going? Christ, this is making me feel horrible, I'd better have more?

knock yourself out...Or rather don't

Nobody ever got rich by wearing a heart on their sleeve, unless it was someone else's heart.