overcoming desires Quotes

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

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The Shield used to refer to themselves as the most dominant force in our universe. But that ain't the way I remember it. They fell victim to the faults of men. Their lust and greed and valor for glory, it led them right down in the pit, where they belong. Tonight, they'll burn for it. For I am no man. I am reborn. Our bond can never be broken, and our urges can never be satisfied.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

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

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.