Quotes about Self-control
Self-discipline is the most important quality in any life. Do you know what self-discipline is? It is keeping ourselves going in the right direction without someone making us do so.
- Joyce Meyer
We are wise to use moderation in all things, meaning to allow ourselves just enough but not too much of anything. This helps us live balanced lives and keeps the doors of our lives closed to the enemy.
- Joyce Meyer
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. GALATIANS 5:22—23 NIV
- Joyce Meyer
we would get still long enough to let that wisdom rise and minister to our minds, we wouldn't do so many foolish things. Too many times, we react through our emotions and we don't pay any attention to the wisdom in our hearts.
- Joyce Meyer
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
- Dorothy Sayers
Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.
- Mother Angelica
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.
- Randy Alcorn
It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
- Randy Alcorn
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
- Marcus Aurelius
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
- Cicero
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
- St. Thomas Aquinas