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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, |
| 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, |
| How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| 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. ~ Bob Moawad |
| I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| 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, |
| The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. ~ Norman Vincent Peale |
| Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. ~ Lane Olinghouse |
| It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~ Buddha |
| The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ~ Oscar Wilde, |
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| You must admit you have self-control before you can use it. ~ Carrie Latet |
| What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely. ~ Franklin P. Jones |
| 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 |
| It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~ Mick Jagger |
| I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
I am,
indeed,
a king,
because I know how
to rule myself.
~ Pietro Aretino |
| You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically – to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good.’ ~ Stephen Covey |
| If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. ~ François |
| For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
| The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice…. It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel. ~ Jim Carrey, from a Michael Fleming interview in the March 2004 issue of |
| An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. ~ Vida D. Scudder |
| Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. ~ J. Petit-Senn |
| Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. ~ Korman’s Law |
Who is fit to govern others?
He who governs himself.
You might as well have said: nobody.
~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| 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. ~ Charlotte Dacre, |
| Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~ Robert Orben |
| Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values – and witnesses. ~ Franklin P. Jones |
| About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation. ~ Tom Wilson |