Quotes about Self-control
Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].
— Billy Graham
Many people today have discarded the Bible's clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.
— Billy Graham
The longing of your breast is to be a living flame, ignited with the exhilaration of beholding His beauty, worshiping Him with uninhibited abandon, and deployed into the world with self-controlled, calculated zeal that does not love its own life even unto death.
— Bob Sorge
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— St. Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— St. Augustine
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
— St. Augustine
The mind commands the body, and it obeys instantly; the mind commands itself, and is resisted.
— St. Augustine
Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don't give anyone that much power over your life.
— Germany Kent
The strong man is not one who is good at wrestling, but the strong man is one who controls himself in a fit of rage.
— Anonymous
If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.
— Germany Kent
Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.
— Joseph Wirthlin
If a goal is really important to me, I discipline myself in order to achieve it.
— Bill Hybels