Quotes About Controlling Urges

#1. Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

Thomas Peterffy

#3. Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

Bernie Siegel

#4. Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.

Patricia Garfield

#5. When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

#6. Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Thomas Dekker

#7. We want to be clear: The skills we [teach] you for managing your emotions and controlling your urges to self-harm will never be quite as effective or satisfying as self-harm in the short run.

Kim L. Gratz

#8. Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs ...

Gary Johnson

#9. But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop?

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.

Yao Ming

#11. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. Always be true to yourself; you matter the most.

Debasish Mridha