Quotes about Self-control
We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.
— Kris Vallotton
It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.
— Seneca
Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.
— Anonymous
Take heed lest passion sway thy judgment to do aught, which else free will would not admit.
— John Milton
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
— Samuel Johnson
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
— Epictetus
Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.
— St. Augustine
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
— Seneca
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
— Polycarp
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
— CS Lewis