Quotes About Self-control

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you're lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way.

I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, 'You're acting different.' But the truth is that I don't need that, because I don't get out of hand.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

If you're going to have a piece of pie, have it. I love pecan pie - but it won't be with ice cream; it won't be with whipped cream.

I feel like I don't hit the radio button ever - or not enough, even on the good stuff. I do shout some stuff when I'm mad at myself, but I'm pretty good about not hitting the radio button.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Sometimes the calls just don't go your way. You've just got to learn to deal with those situations and try to prevent yourself from being in the same situation the next game.

Oh God, don't let me go on Amazon Prime at one in the morning 'cause I always buy something I don't need.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

I'm not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.

There are so many times where I may share a dirty joke or laugh at one, but the due restriction has to be there in one's head when it comes to the larger audience.