Quotes about Self-control
Restraint never ruins one's health.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.
— Jim Rohn
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
— William Hazlitt
Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.
— E Stanley Jones
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
— Jim Rohn
The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
— Gordon Hinckley
Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.
— John Maxwell
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.
— Max Lucado
Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed
— Hillary Clinton
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7 AMP)
— James Goll