Quotes about Self-control
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
- Marcus Aurelius
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
- Marcus Aurelius
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- St. Jerome
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
- St. John Chrysostom
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
- Samuel Johnson
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
- Philip Yancey
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
- Stephen Covey
Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
- Erwin McManus
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.
- Joyce Meyer
If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.
- James Allen