self-control Quotes

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

God has entrusted me with myself.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.