Quotes about Self-control
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
- Seneca
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
- Polycarp
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
- CS Lewis
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
- Clement of Alexandria
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
- Khalil Gibran
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
- Wayne Dyer
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
- St. Augustine
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.
- Thomas a Kempis