By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Football made me want to train and stay disciplined. It kept me away from things like drugs. Young people are faced with… — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown. — Jacob Latimore Copy Share Image
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Love may be able to force you into precarious situations, it may lead you into double-edged bonfires and you don't smell the… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now'… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“resisting the temptation whose logic was “In this extenuating circumstance, just this once, it’s OK” has proven to be one of the… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him… — John Owen Copy Share Image
America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There's always a temptation to get in front of the camera. It's part of my personality. — Terrell Suggs Copy Share Image
“Her skin hummed with anticipation of Jaxon’s touch. She squeezed her thighs as her womb clenched. This could all go brilliantly or… — Senayda Pierre Copy Share Image
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
“Every hour of temptation in one's life has origin. Either from the flesh or the devil .” — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Peer pressure is like a mouse, it gnaws though the door till it finds its way through, only if we kill it… — Awele Emili Copy Share Image
“The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It's hard to know what is the right decision when we are full of temptation but if we have God in our… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
