Quotes about Self-control

When tempted to criticize your parents, spouse, or children, bite your tongue.

If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

We never regret having eaten too little.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

Lusts within are worse than lions without.