Matt Roper Quotes

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

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

People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.

I never forbid myself anything.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Protect me from what I want.