Desire Quote by Democritus Download Open image “It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.” — Democritus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Desire Control Fight Desire Fighting Hard Inspirational Men Reasonable Reasonable man Sign Reasonable
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something. — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone have desires, not everyone can control desires from doing it in actions — KM II Copy Share Image
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. — Democritus Copy Share Image
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. — Democritus Copy Share Image
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse… — Democritus Copy Share Image
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. — Democritus Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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