Favors Quote by Steven Pressfield

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

— Ann Landers

“To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes…

— Aleister Crowley

“When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior produces an…

— Ronald H. Nash

“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently”

— Norah Vincent

The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.

— Hal Elrod

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to…

— Hugh Prather

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing,…

— Thomas Troward

“In our subjective hindrance, we are nevertheless the objectively unhindered expression of nature as one moment transforms into the next.”

— Thomas W. Clark

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater