Quotes about Self-control
It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
- John Wooden
He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.
- Aldous Huxley
Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.
- Donald Whitney
But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.
- Donald Whitney
The strong could make their own law, live their own lives; in fact, they were beyond good and evil. What was good and what was evil? It is easy enough to stifle conscience for a time. The satisfied flesh has its own law.
- Dorothy Day
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
- Epictetus
Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.
- John Maxwell
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.
- Zig Ziglar
Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
- Oswald Chambers
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
- Mahatma Gandhi