Quotes about Self-control
Do you resort to liquor, narcotics, or cigarettes to quiet your nerves? If so, why do you not try will-power instead?
— Napoleon Hill
Crisis of the will. When a darkened mind chooses to remain in darkness, no one is to blame but the individual making that choice.
— Charles Swindoll
The devil has some Christians in POW camps due to alcohol, drugs, pornography, fear, discouragement, depression, pride, narcissism, materialism, and a whole host of other problems.
— Tony Evans
How you manage your appetite for reward is vital to who you are becoming.
— Kris Vallotton
Free people can handle liberty because they have developed character through exercising the restraint dictated by their virtues. They are not the slaves of their physical desires; rather, they train their bodies to behave in order to fulfill the higher desires created by their own virtues.
— Kris Vallotton
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