Rita Mae Brown Quotes

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

I knew as a kid that every decision I was going to be making, I would have full responsibility. So I knew I had to do what's right and protect myself, you know?

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

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Protect me from what I want.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

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

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

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

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Self regulation is a myth.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.