Quotes about Self-control

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself.

In the final analysis, effective delegation takes the emotional courage to allow, to one degree or another, others to make some mistakes on our own time, money, and good name. This courage consists of patience, self-control, faith in others and in their potential, and respect for individual differences.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. So I might write something like this: "It is deeply satisfying (emotional) that I (personal) respond (present tense) with wisdom, love, firmness, and self-control (positive) when my children misbehave.

No one can hurt you without your consent.

It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don't want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over

Love ice cream. I let myself have that about once a week. Vanilla.

Temperance is love in training.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.