Quotes About Self-control

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.