348 Quotes About Self-control

People who know how to keep their mouths shut are rare.

Somehow, there is a tendency among people that God is deaf to all that proceeds out of mouth. This in turn, leads to unrestrained verbal diarrhoea. How foolish are we! He who planted the ear, does He not hear?

Rudeness happens when there is a leak in your self-control.

Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.

A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.