Alice Hoffman Quotes

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

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

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Protect me from what I want.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

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

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

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

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.