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Quotes about Self-control

Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
- Job 32:19
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
- Psalm 4:4
Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.
- Psalm 37:8
For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
- Psalm 39:1
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
- Psalm 141:3
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- Proverbs 5:15
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
- Proverbs 5:23
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
- Proverbs 13:3
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
- Proverbs 14:29
A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
- Proverbs 19:11
A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.
- Proverbs 19:19
He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.
- Proverbs 21:23