Quotes About Self-control

True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.

One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong and alert—when in fact the opposite is the case. Don't allow yourself to be deceived.

Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].

Many people today have discarded the Bible's clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.

I do not understand what I do. . . . For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. —Romans 7:15, 19

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

The Christian is likened to a boxer, who masters his own body and practices self restraint, and all the way through the New Testament you'll read words like this describing the Christian life: fight, wrestle, run, work, suffer, endure, resist, agonize, persevere. All of these are New Testament words describing the Christian life. It is to be a disciplined life.

undo : if you're bleeding undo : if you're sweating undo : if you're crying, darling undo : undo

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.' ~Blackhawk

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn't want to think about

The longing of your breast is to be a living flame, ignited with the exhilaration of beholding His beauty, worshiping Him with uninhibited abandon, and deployed into the world with self-controlled, calculated zeal that does not love its own life even unto death.

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited.

Cz?owiek jest jak ?ma: na o?lep rwie si? do ognia, cho? go boli i cho? si? w nim spali. Robi to jednak dopóty – doda? po namy?le – dopóki nie oprzytomnieje. I tym ró?ni si? od ?my...

I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...

that my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not—of

Mitrofanii frowned—he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.

Probably the greatest challenge and the most difficult thing you will face in mortal life is to learn to control your thoughts. In the Bible it says, as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." Those who can control their thoughts have conquered themselves.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.