It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.  ~Buddha

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.  So does a person.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.  ~Author Unknown

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.  ~Thomas JeffersonETW

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.  ~Jim Rohn

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.  ~Tom Wilson

I have been my own disciple and my own master.  And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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 WildeQS

Self-respect is the root of discipline:  The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.  ~Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967MBT

Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery.  ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomolia

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.  ~Carrie Latet

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.  ~Korman’s Law

And so, Reader, (for it is time to have done with guessing) would 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, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.  ~Robert Orben

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.  ~J. Petit-SennCUL

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.  ~Benjamin FranklinGCLE

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.  ~Jim Carrey, from a Michael Fleming interview in the March 2004 issue of Playboy magazineTPV