Quotes about Self-control

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

No man is free until he s a master of himself!!

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.