There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings;… — Anne Baxter Copy Share Image
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray.… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know. — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives.… — Peter Drucker 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
He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop. — Robert South Copy Share Image
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical...… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“She didn’t turn back. She knew his eyes were still on her, but she wouldn’t allow herself to look back. One more… — H.C. Roberts Copy Share Image
“When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
