Quotes about Self-control
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
— Wayne Dyer
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
— Epictetus
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
— St. Augustine
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.
— Thomas a Kempis
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
— Ignatius of Loyola
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
— Kent Hughes
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
— JC Ryle
The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.
— G Campbell Morgan
Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.