Quotes about Self-control
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
- Charles Spurgeon
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
- Charles Stanley
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
- Samuel Johnson
Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.
- Danny Silk
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher
An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
- George Washington
sin sneaks up on us over time.
- Timothy Lane
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
- St. Augustine
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I can resist anything but temptation
- Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
- Dale Carnegie