Self Indulgence Quotes
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Self Indulgence Quotes & Sayings
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Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.
— Richard M. Weaver
Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.
— Soseki Natsume
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
— Erma Bombeck
The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .
— Timothy Keller
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
— John Ruskin
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
— Theodore L. Cuyler
Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Networking events often resembled a pandemonium of self-indulgence with the pleasures of flesh on display.
— Elise Icten
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
— Ambrose Bierce
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.
— Donald A. Norman
Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence - or sheer bad luck.
— Caroline Kepnes
Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.
— Idries Shah
So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence.
— Studs Terkel
The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.
— Billy Graham
Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice
— Maryam Jameelah
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
— Louis Faurer
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
— Dean Koontz
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
— Gregory Peck
A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
— Dan Simmons
The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.
— Justin Vivian Bond
The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.
— Thomas Hardy
Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.
— Angelina Jolie
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism.
— Sunday Adelaja
Live with hope and courage and lived instead a long season of whining, self-indulgence, and fear.
— Shauna Niequist
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfect by nature, icons of self indulgence. Just what we need more lies about our world.
— Evanescence
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
— Mason Cooley
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
— Billy Graham
Guilt is a self-indulgence.
— Marian Keyes
O woman, thou art my imperfection!
— Pawan Mishra
There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
— Larry Mullen Jr.
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
— Ambrose Bierce
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.
— Frederick Lenz
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
— Iain Banks
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
— Woodrow Wilson
In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.
— Geraldine Brooks
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
— Stephen King
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
— Mark Haddon
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
— Audre Lorde
To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion
— Richard J. Foster
Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.
— Orrin Woodward
Shame can be self-indulgence too.
— Eleanor Clark
