Quotes About Self-control

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

I exercise self-control and never touch any beverage stronger than gin before breakfast.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde, President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.'

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.

1. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

My mother used to say, "He who angers you conquers you."

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Happy is he that chastens himself.

The head is always the dupe of the heart.