Quotes About Self-control

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Never complain and never explain.

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.

It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself;

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.

Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.