Quotes about Self-control

I am on a sugar-free diet. I used to be a sugar addict where I would eat gummy bears and candy when I lived in Europe.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him

countless people step into financial bondage because they spend money they don't have in order to underwrite a "once in a lifetime opportunity." God is not behind every good deal! Self-control means turning down most good deals on things we want because God may have other and better plans for his money.

If you know you can fall, you make wise choices to keep yourself from falling.

The lustful man walks with a noose around his neck.

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.

As Paul said in Romans 7:16 and 18, "I do what I do not want to do… For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (NIV).

The moral law will always stand over and above and against a heart that seeks to be its own guide. One

Gold had discovered, since starting to exercise strenuously several years before, that he was able to make love with greater vitality, stamina, and self-control than formerly, and with much less pleasure.