Jojo Moyes Quotes

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Protect me from what I want.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.