Lee Ryan Quotes

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

You know what, life is full of temptations.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

I'm really not good with impulse control.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it. I've walked both sides of the fence, and there are times I can't sleep and I wake the engineer up and get it out of me. But it usually doesn't pour all the way out. I have to come back and have the conversation that you usually try not to have with yourself. That's how it gets resolved.

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.