Zack Greinke Quotes

I have to reign myself in a lot.

I will count to 10 before tweeting.

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Sometimes it's good to say no. Sometimes it's good to not act impulsively.

You have no control over how tall you are or how long your legs are, but you do have control over how much you concentrate.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Temper your future actions.

You’re crowding me. I need— room.”... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldn’t be trusted in Patch’s presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet … I wasn’t.

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.