We all have vulnerabilities that can sidetrack us from reaching our goals. Recognize the times when you're most likely to give into… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm,… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Sixsmith, Eva. Because her name is a synonym for temptation: what treads nearer to the core of man? Because her soul swims… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t “choose” fiery tempers or alcoholic binges or torturing prisoners of war or exploiting Third-World workers or dumping toxic chemicals… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“Which is better? - To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort - no struggled; - but to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“You may be tempted to regret being born when you are made to watch the videos of just what you will go… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“Which is how most people acted when it came to temptation. They gave in. And we should never forget, thought Isabel, that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“But the nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upo them,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it.… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
![“I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.” quote by Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/68d/laurence-sterne-1405_adversaries_i-know-as-well-as-any-one-the-devil-is-a_1653656.jpg)
![“Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.[..] It makes you ache...you'll make any promise,swear any oath. For one...perfect...unsoiled taste” quote by Sarah MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ce/sarah-maclean-1164_desire_temptation-turns-you-it-makes-you-into-s_425484.png)
