Quotes About Self-control

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

More men die from overeating than undernourishment.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.