Quotes about Self-control
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
- Ambrose of Milan
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- St. Augustine
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- Saint Jerome
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
- Samuel Johnson
You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time.
- Dennis Prager
God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.
- Jentezen Franklin
Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.
- Joyce Meyer
Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.
- Oswald Chambers
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
- Clement of Alexandria