Holly Lisle Quotes

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

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

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

I want to be a good person. I don't want to fail. I want to learn from my mistakes, rid myself of distractions, and run into the arms of Jesus. Most of the time, however, I feel like I am running away from Jesus into the arms of my own clutteredness.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.