Self-Control Quotes

I find the more obvious vices the easiest to resist.

We can’t just erase our worst impulses. But maybe we can control them.

You control your nerves. Your nerves do not control you.

You can’t be ruled by hate. It eats us. And then it owns us.[to Robin]

We can’t always just do what we want. We have to control ourselves.

To act on impulse is to make oneself a hostage to ridicule.

The greatest victory karate can bring to you is not having to fight at all.[to Samantha]

Temperance begins with faith.

Smart ones never eat much.[to Ali][원래 공부 잘하는 애들이 입이 짧아.]

Man, in the moment, you’re like this… You’re a monkey. Like possessed. You’d do anything to get your rocks off. And then, later, you regret it. And you do regret it. There’s the man, and there’s the monkey. And somehow, you gotta be man enough to face down the monkey.[to Quinn]

It’s never easy being the bigger person.[to Samantha]

It’s hard to come to terms with a violent nature. Hating the power it has over us.