Quotes about Self-control

I have been negligent this month past, in these three things: I have not been watchful enough over my appetites, in eating and drinking; in rising too late in the morning; and in not applying myself with sufficient application to the duty of secret prayer.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

It is important to remember that anytime you feel the need to begin a conversation with the words, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but . . . it's almost always a conversation that shouldn't happen at all. So, if you feel the need to say, I probably shouldn't say this . . . then DON'T! Just hush. That little nudge you are feeling is probably the Holy Spirit saying, Don't go there. You're going to regret the words you're about to speak. Or as King David wrote, Muzzle it! I

every personal or behavioral problem one might wish to change (for example, bad temper, perverted sexual desires, depression, anxiety, overeating) results ultimately from violations of the command to love.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it.

When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.