self control Quotes

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires... ...

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the... ...

Adjust your desires to what you can currently afford. Only increase them when you have more resources.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

"When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself."

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not... ...

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.