Quotes about Compulsion
You are a slave of what you need in your soul.
— Carl Jung
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
— St. Augustine
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.
— Napoleon Hill
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
— Thomas Jefferson
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
— Karl Rahner
And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.
— DH Lawrence
Sometimes we praise because we choose to; other times we praise because we want to. Occasionally we praise because we have to—because, if we don't, the rocks will cry out!
— Beth Moore
I experienced it as a compulsion to self-destruct. I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more different ways I'd find to screw it up.
— Steven Pressfield
What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.
— Billy Graham
The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and "personal fulfillment." America's compulsion for "maximum personhood" is evidenced everywhere.
— Billy Graham
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes neccessity.
— St. Augustine
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
— St. Augustine