Quotes about Self-control
One secret to wisdom:think more, speak less.If you let your words be few, your troubles will not be many.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
— Thomas a Kempis
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
— Cicero
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
— Mark Driscoll
There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
— John Bunyan
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
— Confucius
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
— GK Chesterton
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.
— David O. McKay
Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
— Epictetus
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
— Thomas a Kempis