Quotes About Self-control

Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.

It's my life and I'm responsible for it. No one's going to save you. Accountability

be killing sin or it will be killing you.

In the first case, we use our own power to make ourselves moral. In the second case, we use our own power to make the church moral. In the first case, we fail to rely on the power of God for our own sanctification. In the second case, we fail to rely on the power of God for the sanctification of others.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

The same strong susceptibilities which makes the personal impulses vivid and powerful are also the source from whence are generated the most passionate love of virtue and the sternest self-control.

Massified populations cannot exercise self-control very well since they depend on constant oversight to behave as required. When external controls are removed, anything becomes possible.

Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives. Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships; easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment has removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers have removed the need to ask questions. We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

Solo puedo controlar aquello de lo que soy consciente. Y aquello de lo que no soy consciente me controla a mí. La conciencia me capacita.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Discipline yourself and others won't need to.

Once, long years ago, I thought I could set a canoe-load of my people free by breaking the bands at my wrists and killing the white man who held the weapon. I had the strength in my hands to do such a deed and I had the fire within, but I didn't do it." "What held you back?" Amos shook his head. "My hand was restrained and I'm glad that it was, for the years between have shown me that it does a man no good to be free until he knows how to live, how to walk in step with God.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

The first time the temptation comes, meet it in such a decided manner that it will never be repeated!

The body is to be brought into subjection. The higher powers of the being are to rule. The passions are to be controlled by the will, which is itself to be under the control of God. The kingly power of reason, sanctified by divine grace, is to bear sway in our lives. [74]

Our danger is not from scarcity, but from abundance. We are constantly tempted to excess.

It is impossible for those who indulge the appetite to attain to Christian perfection.—

Appetite must not be your god.—