Quotes about Self-control

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, Peace, be still!

CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

The man of virtue will bridle his tongue, and thus learn how rightly to govern the mind. He will not let his tongue run idly and foolishly, but will make his speech strong and pure, and will either talk with a purpose or remain silent.

Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends; by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought a man descends.

He must avoid quarrelling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.

you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power.

beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and sunny circumstances: pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace:

How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood!