Quotes About Self-control

As we reflect on the value of resolving to do better, let us determine to discipline ourselves to carefully select the resolutions we make, to consider the purpose for making them, and finally to make commitments for keeping them and not letting any obstacle stop us. Let us remind ourselves at the beginning of each day that we can keep a resolution just for that day.

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Max saw the stranger give him the once-over, recognised it for what it was. Women had been making him offers since before he was legal. And he'd learned to turn them down without hurting their feelings ...

So she satisfied her urge to kick at him by leaning back, palms down on the table. It was a good thing they weren't near the food, otherwise, her hair would've been in the coffee.

dig your grave with your knife and fork.

The Spirit at work in us is replacing our desire to dress in a way that impresses or seduces with a desire to dress as Paul instructed women in his letter to Timothy, "in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control" (1 Tim. 2:9). Rather than making a fashion statement with our clothes that will cause heads to turn in our direction, we want to make a fashion statement with our character that will cause heads to turn in Christ's direction.

Our goal, then, is not to eliminate the feelings of anger from our parental repertoire. We couldn't, even if we wanted to. Rather, it is to find ways to express ourselves when we are angry that do not hurt, insult, demean, or inspire revenge and rage in our children.

It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar. Her body wants something, and she is denying it.

It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar. Her body wants something, and she is denying

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.

Everything else can be taken from you, but this power to choose what you think, what you remember, and what you believe about yourself is untouchable.

?ovjekovo pravo bi?e pokazuje se u tri slu?aja. Kad je posrijedi novac, kad govori u srdžbi i kad je pijan.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

You need discipline most, when it's hardest to muster.

My course of action depends on me.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.

The fruit of the Spirit is not spouse control or staff control or environmental control; it is self-control (see Gal. 5:23).

The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.

Mastery of self-control of your thoughts and feelings is your highest achievement.