No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
“My, my, my…” She sighed, affecting a Southern drawl she no doubt stole from Wesley. “I see temptation has come a knockin’… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through… — Bernard Gilpin Copy Share Image
“I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.” — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“And she gave herself up to him body and soul, responding to his disarming affection, the bounty of his indefatigable dick, and… — C.C. Gibbs Copy Share Image
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Their glee was greater glee in the fact that he was a good man, than he was any off-the-street kind of a… — John Pontius Copy Share Image
One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the… — Noel DeJesus Copy Share Image
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Daily I walk a high wire, always in danger of losing my balance. The essence of my life is supernatural, which I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
From Lehi's vision we learn that we must take hold of this safety railing-this iron rod, found alongside our individual straight and… — Ann M. Dibb Copy Share Image
That is why I love you. Youre like the sea. A temptation. An overwhelming feeling that pulls me in, just to feel… — Ali Bassam Copy Share Image
Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
“Temptation is not limitation ; when you fail does not mean you cannot win , press forward and keep faith, for one… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth… — William James Copy Share Image
You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery. — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell,… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
