Bow Wow Quotes

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

Protect me from what I want.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

I just try to control what I can control.

I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'

I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Teach him to deny himself.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.