Lewis Carroll Quotes

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

I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

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

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

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

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

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

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. 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.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

You're always having those life-skills type discussions about decision-making. It's just making sure you're making good decisions and going about your business. There are distractions in every city.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.