Roy Baumeister famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Running #Animal #Discipline
Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Willpower #Muscles
Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Educational #Pregnancy #School
Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Strong #School #Self
Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Sports #Self Esteem #Discipline
What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Animal #Pursuit Of Happiness #Unique
For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Goal #Problem
The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Self Esteem #May #Ends
Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person or circumstance. ... violence is perpetrated by a small subset of people with favorable views of themselves. ... Viewed in this light, the societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Self Esteem #Light #Views
People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Self Esteem #People #Unstable
Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.
-- Roy Baumeister

#Believe #Mean #People

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