Benjamin Hoff Quotes

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

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

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

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

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

I'm really not good with impulse control.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.