Quotes on self control
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Coolidge, Calvin
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Wilson, Tom
The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.
Law, Korman's
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
Moawad, Bob
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
Scudder, Vida D.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Unknown, Author
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Wilde, Oscar
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Wilde, Oscar
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Olinghouse, Lane
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Twain, Mark
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
Petit-Senn, J.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Beecher, Henry Ward
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Franklin, Benjamin
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.
Montaigne, Michel de
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.
Dacre, Charlotte
The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.
Fischer, Martin H.
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Bierce, Ambrose
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Heschel, Abraham J.