Quotes About Self-control

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Freedom does not mean license.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.

A word of advice don't give it.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.