Quotes About Self-control

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Take up anything that you see or feel, a book for instance; first concentrate the mind on it, then on the knowledge that is in the form of a book, and then on the Ego that sees the book, and so on. By that practice all the organs will be conquered.

As the tortoise can draw in his legs, and if you strike him, not one foot comes out

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

What is meant, therefore, by this mortification? Holding the rein firmly while guiding the body and the organs; not letting them do anything they like, but keeping them both under proper control.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.