Quotes about Self-control

I don't eat with beautiful women alone.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.

We will never get anywhere in life without discipline, be it in the arts, business, athletics, or academics.

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

I've talked to men who feel like they're overly sexual and, therefore, are attracted to any female who walks down the street. I will not excuse his activity with every female just because he feels driven in that direction.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.