Quotes about Self-control

He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.

ALL that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. In

We are built up or brought down by ourselves. Within your mind you can build a fortress of joy, strength, and peace; or you can forge the weapons of thought that will bring about your own destruction.

As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.

Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence. He may not, in order to succeed, give up all animality and selfishness, by any means; but a portion of it must, at least, be sacrificed. A man whose first thought is bestial indulgence could neither think clearly nor plan methodically;

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

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

One secret to wisdom:think more, speak less.If you let your words be few, your troubles will not be many.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.