Over Indulgence Quotes

#1. We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence and self imposed poverty nonsense.

Auliq Ice

#2. Lack of knowledge and skills, laziness, gluttony, over-indulgence, lustiness, anger, fear, greed and misuse of knowledge, power and designation are the sources of corruption in the government employees.

Dev Dantreliya

#3. A motorcycle is only an ordinary bicycle driven crazy by over-indulgence in gasoline." "How

Amy Bell Marlowe

#4. An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Criss Jami

#5. If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.

Anne Bronte

#6. The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

Edmund Burke

#7. You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.

Nathanael West

#8. 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Iain Banks

#9. Mitrofanii frowned - he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.

Boris Akunin

#10. Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

Rory Vaden

#11. I have one promise I can make you, Kate." He reached for her hair, coiled some of it around his hand, and used it to pull her toward him.
"What's that?" she whispered breathlessly. Not so cocky now.
"You're going to enjoy this.

Jackie Braun

#12. Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.

Lao-Tzu

#13. Invites us to jump off the hamster wheel of consumption and experience the pinch of abstaining from thoughtless indulgence.

Anonymous

#14. Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single self, when you consider that the many, and duty to them, only exist to you through your own existence, what can be said?

Thomas Hardy

#15. Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Joyce Cary

#16. A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is ... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

Bertrand Russell

#17. Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Hugh Blair

#18. But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Peter Watts

#19. My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

Epicurus

#20. If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Anne Bronte

#21. Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission.

Sarvesh Jain

#22. Beyond a certain point, hope is more than self-indulgence. It's self-harm.

Simon R. Green

#23. I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's.

Rod Serling

#24. false promises of an easy life or indulgence of sins. But in good times, the cost does not seem so high, and people take the name of Christ without undergoing the radical transformation of life that true conversion implies.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#25. I have loved humanity, I have loved it so much. For me, there are three kinds of men; he who curses life, he who blesses it and he who contemplates it. I loved the first for his wretchedness, the second for his indulgence and the third for his perception.

Kahlil Gibran

#26. We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.

Alanis Morissette

#27. The bigger the better; in everything.

Freddie Mercury

#28. Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Billy Graham

#29. We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.

Naeem Khan

#30. Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.

John Milton

#31. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Mae West

#32. I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

Jacob Epstein

#33. If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Ayn Rand

#34. Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

Rick Warren

#35. The good thing about having our buttons pushed is that we can no longer ignore the sensitive areas where we need to heal.

Mary Buchan

#36. First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation.

T.F. Hodge

#37. It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence

Raoul Vaneigem

#38. I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

Mitch Daniels

#39. Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

Oswald Chambers

#40. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Saadi

#41. Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.

Eileen Wilks

#42. The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.

Mario Puzo

#43. It turns out that the Bible is right - "It is better to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). People generally do find greater joy in giving freely to others than they do in rampant self-indulgence.

Francis Chan

#44. To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence; - true poetry strikes at the soul.

Egerton Brydges

#45. Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Donald A. Norman

#46. The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

Roxanne Roberts

#47. Why must there always be a price to pay for every indulgence, and why must it so often be withdrawn from the bankrupt accounts of the innocent?

Andrew Levkoff

#48. I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

Steven Spielberg

#49. The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

Laozi

#50. The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.

David Daiches

#51. I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.

Marilyn Manson

#52. God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.

Jocelyn Gibb

#53. Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

Maryam Jameelah

#54. There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#55. No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#56. At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#57. A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Socrates

#58. Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

Angelina Jolie

#59. Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

Aldous Huxley

#60. Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will.

Carlos Castaneda

#61. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

Henepola Gunaratana

#62. Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt

#63. Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#65. I had so much fun writing this book and I want readers to have fun also. A Passion for Prying is a feel-good, fun read. It's like eating a delicious, sinful hot fudge sundae--pure fun and indulgence.

Nancy Mangano

#66. Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.

Benjamin Disraeli

#67. time - that true happiness is found, not in the indulgence of pride and luxury, but in communion with God through his created works.

Ellen G. White

#68. There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

M. Night Shyamalan

#69. She was an indulgence, a dangerous one, but weren't those the best kind?

Chanel Cleeton

#70. Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Arthur Smith

#71. Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Richard M. Weaver

#72. My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.

Leela Corman