Quotes about Self-control
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
— Barbara Johnson
Patience means self-suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
— Max Lucado
Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.
— Rick Warren
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
— Booker T. Washington
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
— Thomas a Kempis
Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.
— Elizabeth George
You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
— Nicky Gumbel
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
— John Milton
If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.
— Joel Osteen
I only allow that which is good into my life. No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything.....other than what you allow!
— Wayne Dyer