Malachy McCourt Quotes

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Discipline is remembering what you want.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

I feel good that I have my life in order. I'm not addicted to anything that I'm aware of.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.