Quotes About Self-control

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

An angry man is full of poison.

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.