If you could see into my past just by touching my back…

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“Typing on a screen isn’t the same as talking face-to-face,” Gramma Bea said, prying Fana’s worries wide open. “Life is something you touch. Typing…

— Tananarive Due

Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with…

— Roy Baumeister

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

— Vicesimus Knox

“Sin isn’t something that is attracted to a human being, Professor. It’s the other way round.” “Not in my experience. Sin seems to find…

— Sylvain Reynard

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something…

— Aldous Huxley

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

— Lysa TerKeurst

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes…

— Charlotte Dacre

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

— Horace Mann

“Because self-control requires energy, which means we have less energy available for the next thing we need to do. And that’s why resisting temptation,…

— David Eagleman

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

— Franklin P. Jones

For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or…

— Kelly McGonigal

“Because low-calorie dieting leads to the production of stress hormones, being on a diet can directly impair the willpower that is needed to succeed…

— Sandra Aamodt

“A live spent resisting temptations is a wasted life….”

— Paulo Coelho

“people are first depleted by a task in which they eat virtuous foods such as radishes and celery while resisting the temptation to indulge…

— Daniel Kahneman