Quotes about Self-control

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

It's not easy for me either, but if we allow anger to reside in us, we're more guilty than they are because we know the better way.

Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I could use a quiet retreat by myself. A

What was it St. Augustine said? she asked herself. "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

For the opposite of sin is faith and never virtue, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that's not how it works. How many men and women we have encountered, of great personal virtue and moral rectitude, convinced of their own righteousness, who have also been totally insensitive to the needs of others and sometimes downright cruel!