Quotes about Self-control

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

When negative thoughts come, the key is to never verbalize them.

Every time you resist temptation you are winning for your children.

want any strangers coming in. That's where you live. That's your home. You need to have that same thinking when it comes to your mind. "This is where I live. This is who I am. This is my future. I'm not going to let just any thought come in and have a permanent home. I'm going to guard the doorway to my mind and only give a room to thoughts of hope, thoughts of faith, and thoughts of victory.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. GALATIANS 5:22—23

We can't stop the negative voices from speaking, but we can choose whether or not we're going to dwell on what they say.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Your capacity to say 'No' determines your capacity to say 'Yes' to greater things.

Fasting: disciplining spiritual/gospel reliance.

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.