Quotes About Self-control

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

The superior man limits his achievements.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?