Quotes about Self-control
We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
- Francis Chan
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
- Melody Beattie
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
- GK Chesterton
Don't sleep with your drummer. Dumb-ass.
- Jen Sincero
Drama dies without an audience
- Jen Sincero
Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.
- Epictetus
If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.
- Epictetus
If you choose, you are free; if you choose, you need blame no man—accuse no man. All things will be at once according to your mind and according to the Mind of God.
- Epictetus
If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.
- Epictetus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.
- Epictetus
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.
- Epictetus