SELF-CONTROL

See also: Temperance

But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled …

The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:8

… be self-controlled …

The Bible, 1 Peter 1:13

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Winston Churchill

Self-control is the mother of spiritual health.

John Climacus

Control your appetites before they control you.

John Climacus

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

If you are to be self-controlled in your speech you must be self-controlled in your thinking.

F. Fénelon

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason.

Hugo Grotius

It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Joubert

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.

John Milton

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter the Great

There has never been, and cannot be, a good life, without self-control.

Leo Tolstoy

Anything which increases the authority of the body over the mind is an evil thing.

Susannah Wesley, writing to her student son John

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolfe