Quotes about Self-control

Do you resort to liquor, narcotics, or cigarettes to quiet your nerves? If so, why do you not try will-power instead?

Crisis of the will. When a darkened mind chooses to remain in darkness, no one is to blame but the individual making that choice.

The devil has some Christians in POW camps due to alcohol, drugs, pornography, fear, discouragement, depression, pride, narcissism, materialism, and a whole host of other problems.

How you manage your appetite for reward is vital to who you are becoming.

Free people can handle liberty because they have developed character through exercising the restraint dictated by their virtues. They are not the slaves of their physical desires; rather, they train their bodies to behave in order to fulfill the higher desires created by their own virtues.

We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

Take heed lest passion sway thy judgment to do aught, which else free will would not admit.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.