Quotes on self control
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Calvin Coolidge Quotes
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
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Tom Wilson Quotes
The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.
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Korman's Law Quotes
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.
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Bob Moawad Quotes
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
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Vida D. Scudder Quotes
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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Buddha Quotes
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.
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Jim Carrey Quotes
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
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.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
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Lane Olinghouse Quotes
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
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J. Petit-Senn Quotes
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.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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.
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Charlotte Dacre Quotes
The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Abraham J. Heschel Quotes