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Quotes about Self-control

We can practice this through spiritual disciplines such as fasting, which can help us stay sweet and strong when we do not get what we want. If we can cheerily give up Twinkies, and peanuts, and steak, and things of that sort for a while, this will bring us to the place where we can say, "Lord, you're quite sufficient for me. If you want to take it away forever, that would be fine.
— Dallas Willard
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.
— David O. McKay
No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.
— St. John Chrysostom
It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
— Pope John Paul II
The best remedy for anger is delay.
— Brigham Young
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
— Jonathan Edwards
Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.
— Charles Spurgeon
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
— David O. McKay
Anger is self-immolation.
— Phillips Brooks
Don't lose your temper; use it.
— Dolly Parton
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
— Nelson Mandela
She was the captain of her soul
— William Faulkner