We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you’d have a hard time resisting the temptation too.” — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. — George Eliot 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
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable. — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
“...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“First she said we were to keep clear of the Sirens, who sit and sing most beautifully in a field of flowers;… — Homer Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice.… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is… — Sidney Greenberg Copy Share Image
There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
“The goal of temptation is to make you fall. So it is the devil who tempts you, not God!” — Pedro Okoro Copy Share Image
“The temptation to take the next step hung in the air around them...it was the apple: take one bite, and there was… — Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Cheating on your boyfriend/girlfriend is not a temptation,it is a decision that comes due to your pride!! — Jamsta E Ngugz Copy Share Image
“Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
“What happened when you gave in to temptation. When you listened to the fallen angels of your nature.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Love is a matter of keeping someone in your heart and being faithful despite of many temptations around you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
