Zebulon Pike Quotes

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

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

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

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

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

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

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.