Self Control

Freedom

Sobriety

Strength

Abstinence

Temperance

Self-denial

Fleeing lust

Self-command

Honouring God

Wisdom’s root

Resisting evil

Conquering self

Self-discipline

Self-government

Self-regulation

The best riches

The main elegance

Victory over self

A gauge of success

Guarding our heart

Managing ourselves

Overcoming desires

Suppressing desire

The highest virtue

Character in action

Governing ourselves

The main discipline

Attention management

Motivating ourselves

Resisting temptation

Listening and obeying

Strength of character

The result of bravery

Being connected to God

Controlling our tongue

Delaying gratification

Purposing in our heart

The product of choices

An instrumental virtue

Dominion over ourselves

Keeping our body under

Something that frees us

Controlling our emotions

Denying the lower nature

Something that compounds

A big part of achievement

Following in a better way

Freedom within constraint

Something to do with love

Surrendering consistently

The most exalted pleasure

The source of all liberty

Being a slave to obedience

Being motivated to do good

The hardest lesson in life

Something that leads to hope

Something we have to work at

Controlling our own behaviour

Listening to the sweeter song

Something bolstered by nature

Something that brings freedom

Avoiding extremes of behaviour

Making useful actions habitual

The first and greatest victory

The main factor behind success

The only discipline that lasts

A virtue of the highest quality

Not eating or drinking too much

Something promoted by community

Something that keeps us growing

Taking steps in duty and virtue

Avoiding things that are harmful

Something moderated by community

Something that is its own reward

The ability to control ourselves

Bringing our bodies into subjection

Choosing our response to stimulus

Not being a slave to our passions

Something subverted by loneliness

The beginning of practical wisdom

The chief element in self-respect

Not having too much of good things

Something necessary for a good life

The biggest public health challenge

Something characteristic of religion

Something that isn’t self-determined

Surrendering to God's purposes for us

A spirit kept gentle under provocation

Moderation or voluntary self-restraint

Something that strengthens by exercise

The greatest empire we can aspire unto

Not being in subjection to our appetite

The ability to resist negative impulses

Submitting every decision we make to God

The ability to do something we should do

Replacing sinful affections with holy ones

Committing ourselves to our best intentions

Something that has its root in self respect

Something that wins us a little credibility

Mastering ourselves by being mastered by God

Not about getting success or money or power

Keeping the things we love in the right order

Something at the foundation of all government

Resisting the temptation to put ourselves first

When right thoughts and actions become habitual

Having a purpose and following a plan or mission

Something that can’t be developed apart from God

Not being commanded by self, but commanded by God

Something that requires not control but surrender

Not being brought under the power of lawful things

Not overworking or working beyond a scheduled time

Mastering ourselves so we can be a servant of others

The ability to resist doing something we shouldn’t do

A foundation for the soul, to build the other virtues on

Finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them

Not just one good character trait, but a foundational one

Something that becomes easier through constant repetition

Something that grows when our life is rooted in divine reality

Reigning within ourselves, and ruling passions, desires and fears

Habitual moderation in the indulgence of the appetites or passions

The ability to do the right thing, even when we don’t feel like it

Revealed preference – not claimed preference or believed preference

Putting a space between wanting to do something and actually doing it

A powerful tool for living a life that glorifies God and blesses others

Knowing that what lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do

Something that arises from God’s abounding love and presence in the heart

Something that will abolish misery from our future and crimes from society

The ability to delay gratification and resist unwanted behaviours or urges

The ability to resist smaller more immediate rewards for bigger ones later

Not bringing our selves under our own control, but under the power of Christ

Not something more important than other virtues but necessary for the others

Something that enables us to suspend our interests enough to truly love others

Something that enables us to do what’s right, and ultimately what’s best for us

Something that will help us stand like a tower when everything shakes around us

Something not to be used for selfish reasons (this is a contradiction, an absurdity)

The ability to control behaviours in order to avoid temptations and to achieve goals

Something that produces more lasting pleasure than unwise, unworthy and criminal gratifications

The ability to regulate our emotions, thoughts, and behaviour in the face of temptations and impulses

Guarding against sins of commission (bad things we do) and sins of omission (good things we fail to do)

The habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will

Controlling our desires and impulses while staying focused on what needs to get done to achieve our goal

Something that facilitates the acquisition and development of other virtues like joy, gratitude, and generosity

Doing things for an ultimate purpose – to win the prize of being united to Christ and to help as many people as possible do the same

Calling ourselves to account, both for what we know, and what we do, and the discipline which we exercise over the processes of our minds

Deciding which of our desires we want to espouse, and then upholding them against the challenges of the competing desires that we like less

The ability to regulate and alter our responses in order to avoid undesirable behaviours, increase desirable ones, and achieve long-term goals

Not so much willpower as vision – the ability to see the future, so that the long-term consequences of our short-term choices are vividly clear