Quotes about Self-control
Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.
- Marianne Williamson
Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.
- Mark Driscoll
Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.
- Mark Driscoll
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
- Mark Twain
Through discipline comes freedom.
- Aristotle
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
- Aristotle
There is no such thing as observing a mean in excess or deficiency, nor as exceeding or falling short in observance of a mean.
- Aristotle
But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.
- Aristotle
The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.
- Aristotle
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
- Brian Tracy
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- John Milton
Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.
- John Milton