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
If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for… — Edmund Vance Cooke Copy Share Image
Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs… — Robert South Copy Share Image
I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Friendship is like the aroma of fresh coffee that entails admiration, temptation, trust, love and good memories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a… — Paul van Dyk Copy Share Image
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Early on in the writing process, there is sometimes this temptation to write around the central drama instead of just aiming for… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Love is a sensation, caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location in a girls destination to increase the population for… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations.… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Jesus, I ask for myself and for a host of friends, bring the hope and resources of the gospel to bear at… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to… — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable. — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible. — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized. — Stuart Holden Copy Share Image
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Well done.' Digory's hunger and temptation didn't cause him to stray, and it was worth it just for that "well done" from… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
![“the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing…” quote by Ethel Smyth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1c/ethel-smyth-28096_bars_the-writer-must-resist-this-temptation-t_2941921.jpg)
