Augustus Quotes

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

You got to keep all your weaknesses away, and my weakness is women. I love women too much. Which has definitely road-blocked me. I just try my best to channel my energy to other things and remain focused while making my work as fun as everything else.

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

If I don't need to shoot the ball, I won't do it.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

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.

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.