Quotes about Self-control
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— St. Jerome
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
— Henry David Thoreau
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
— St. John Chrysostom
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
— Samuel Johnson
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
— Philip Yancey
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
— Stephen Covey
Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
— Erwin McManus
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.
— Joyce Meyer
If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.
— James Allen
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
— James Allen
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue
— Mark Twain