Quotes about Self-control
Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.
— Craig Groeschel
I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I
— Lisa Wingate
Don't let the bad get in you. Don't open the door to it, no matter how much it comes knockin' or how sweet it sounds askin'.
— Lisa Wingate
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.
— Lisa Wingate
There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)
— Liz Curtis Higgs
We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Don't waste words with people who deserve your silence, Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
— Mandy Hale
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
— Virginia Woolf
Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
— Mark Twain
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
— Booker T. Washington