Quotes about Self-control
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
- CS Lewis
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
- Mark Twain
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
- Samuel Johnson
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
- Charles Dickens
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
- Barbara Johnson
Patience means self-suffering.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
- Max Lucado
Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.
- Rick Warren
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
- Booker T. Washington
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
- Henry Ward Beecher
May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
- Thomas a Kempis
Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.
- Elizabeth George