Quotes about Self-control
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
Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down.
— Edith Wharton
Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.
— Edward Welch
If you are casual about anger and unprepared, you will lose and so will those around you.
— Edward Welch
Selfcontrol is the skill of saying "no" to sinful desires, even when it hurts.
— Edward Welch