Quotes 1 till 20 of 46.
-
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
-
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
-
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
-
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
-
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.
-
As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
-
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
-
Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
-
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
-
For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
-
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
-
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
-
I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
-
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
(2003) -
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
-
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
-
In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
All resist famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com
