Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, 'Don't move, don't twitch, don't do anything,' without a doubt, the million dollars would be mine.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

It needs courage to throw oneself forward, but it needs no less to hold oneself back.

One of the best things I've ever been told is that it's better for someone to tell you to slow down than to speed up.

It's not easy not to play.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

Don't look now, but that's my ex over there." Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked. "Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!

By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.