Quote by David DiSalvo

“if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge…

— Daniel Kahneman

I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets.…

— Gena Showalter

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

— Franklin P. Jones

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware…

— Stefan Zweig

A lot of people do impulsive things. They just go with their moves. I used to do that. Once I was able to control…

— Tyrann Mathieu

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

— Roy Baumeister

If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

— Gary Zukav

What is the most fascinating kind of self-deception to me, and a kind that isn't necessarily unhealthy, is what Friedrich Nietzsche called "strategic self-deception."…

— Clancy Martin

Good habits result from resisting temptation

— Proverb

“People can fall into habitual programmed patterns of thinking, underpinned by long-held beliefs and blind acceptance of conventional wisdom. Lying beneath such surface thoughts…

— Mark Ireland

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

— Leonid Shamkovich

“It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to…

— Henepola Gunaratana