Joachim de Posada Quotes

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

A prince must, above all things, accustom himself to moderate his desires. For as he has the power of gratifying them, if he once gives way to them, he will run to the greatest excess, and, by destroying his subjects, will at last complete his own ruin. In order to form himself to this moderation, nothing is more proper, than to accustom himself to patience. This is the most necessary of all virtues for those, who are to command. A man must be patient to become master of himself and others.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

Protect me from what I want.

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

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

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.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!

Sometimes it's good to say no. Sometimes it's good to not act impulsively.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

Teach him to deny himself.

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.