Quotes about Self-control

Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

No man is free until he s a master of himself!!

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

In order to be a disciple we must deny ourselves—this is to exercise authority over our own spirit. We must take up the cross—this is to submit to Christ's authority. And we must follow—this is continued obedience. This is the road not to confinement, to bondage, to a stunted or arrested development, but to total personal freedom. It means not death but life, not a narrowly circumscribed life but "abundant" life.