Self-controlled Quotes

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Practice
  • Actions
  • Courageous

• Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Way
  • Learn

• Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • Suspicion
  • Self-controlled

• If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Poetry
  • Gates

• The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Faith
  • Food
  • Masters

• The longing of your breast is to be a living flame, ignited with the exhilaration of beholding His beauty, worshiping Him with uninhibited abandon, and deployed into the world with self-controlled, calculated zeal that does not love its own life even unto death.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Love
  • Death
  • Beauty