Famous self-control quotes,quotations and sayings
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
Motivational saying by J. Petit-Senn
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Inspirattional Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
Good Sayings by Franklin P. Jones
Go ahead and squander your chi. But I guarantee you heaven isn’t in Miss March’s pussy…. 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.
Source : Jim Carrey, from a Michael Fleming interview in the March 2004 issue of Playboy magazine~Great Self-Control Quotes
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Source : Author Unknown~Great Self-Control Quotes
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Source : Mark Twain~Famous Self-Control Sayings
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
Motivational saying by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Inspirattional Quote by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Good Sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.
Source : Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588~Great Self-Control Quotes
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Source : Samuel Taylor Coleridge~Great Self-Control Quotes
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.
Source : C.S. Lewis~Famous Self-Control Sayings
If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.
Motivational saying by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Inspirattional Quote by Robert Orben
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Good Sayings by Mick Jagger
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Source : Lane Olinghouse~Great Self-Control Quotes
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