Self-Control Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Antonio Porchia
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| Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| 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. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. |
| - Buddha |
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| How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. |
| - Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. |
| - François |
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| If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. |
| - Abraham Joshua Heschel |
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| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. |
| - Franklin P. Jones |
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| A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. |
| - C.S. Lewis |
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| Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. |
| - Lane Olinghouse |
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| Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. |
| - Robert Orben |
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| The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. |
| - Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. |
| - J. Petit-Senn |
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| I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| 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. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. |
| - Tom Wilson |
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