Quotes about Self-control
Once you have grace, I said to him, you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do, and that you know you don't really want to do.
- Thomas Merton
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
- Calvin Coolidge
Alcohol is the reduced form of spirit. Therefore, many people, lacking spirit, take to drink. They fill themselves with alcohol.
- Carl Jung
The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.
- Isabel Allende
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.
- Anonymous
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- Marcus Aurelius
Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.
- Napoleon Hill
Happy is he that chastens himself.
- Anonymous
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
- Teresa of Avila