Quotes About Self-control

If I forget to pray, I can't get through the day without snapping at people.

I didn't binge when I was pregnant.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.

I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... I mean, if I had a 6 A.M. call, I had to be prepared. I had to be in bed at a certain hour.

Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.

I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.

I can stay under 215 pounds, which is pretty good for me, if I stay off the road. If I go on the road, I invariably eat garbage and start to lose my girlish figure.

I said to my wife, Michele, 'What would you like for Christmas? Anything you want, darling, anything in our means.' She said she would like me to be the weight I was when we married. So I will not gorge myself.

Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my attitude, my effort every day.

I'm careful about what I eat, but I do allow myself cheat days.

We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.

Not only am I at a decent fighting weight already, I don't let myself balloon anymore. I let myself get up to 280, 290 before. I can't believe I let myself do that.

If we lose track when it comes to deciding when to stop, that should be a sign.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

The best way of me not doing things is to demand it from me.

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.

I would never talk bad about anybody, even if they have something derogatory to say about me. I'm the bigger person.

We have to learn to listen to our conscience and not what we desire.

If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing.

No dessert. I don't do dessert.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.