Quotes about Self-control
Very few go astray who comport themselves with restraint.
— Confucius
When anger arises, think of the consequences.
— Confucius
There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.
— Cormac McCarthy
Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.
— Dale Carnegie
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
— Dale Carnegie
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …
— Dale Carnegie
The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.
— Charles Martin
While her emotions were very real and they gnawed at her with a raw sincerity, she was listening to something deeper. She was listening to her will, not letting what she felt dictate what she would do. Didn't let it dictate her life.
— Charles Martin
If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.
— Charles Martin
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
— Charles Spurgeon
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
— Charles Stanley
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
— Samuel Johnson