Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams Copy Share Image
That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!" — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career. — DeForest Kelley Copy Share Image
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
“The temptation to level off [your giving] increases with each passing year. Pride tells you that you've sacrificed more than others. Fear… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Sex is a sensation caused by temptation. a guy sticks his location in a girl's destination. to increase population of the next… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Violence always came too easy to you, that's the problem. It always felt too good. Remember the first time you trod on… — Stephen Kelman Copy Share Image
“Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,” Sanya said. “That he faced far greater and more terrible… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“How? And why would you care?” I asked and ignored the angry glance Paul was directing at me. “He is a pathetic… — K.A. Poe Copy Share Image
“Here’s a hand to the boy who has courage To do what he knows to be right; When he falls in the… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged.” — Roseanna White Copy Share Image
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image