Michel de Montaigne Quotes

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

I am mentally strong.

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

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

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.