Temptations Quotes
261 quotes by 213 authors
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We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection…
— Philip Zimbardo
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The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
— Thomas Merton
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Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
— A.J. Cronin
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
— Elizabeth Bishop
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There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately, brings numerous other…
— Harun Yahya
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To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.
— Edward Gibbon
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No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have…
— Margaret Mead
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When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character,…
— James Buckham Kennedy
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Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
— George Eliot
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Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.
— Ronald Reagan
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or…
— Samuel Johnson
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Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of…
— Frederic Farrar
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We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us,…
— Oswald Chambers
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Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character…
— Michael Josephson
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Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.
— LZ Granderson
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Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell…
— Lysander Spooner
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We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and…
— L. Lionel Kendrick
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I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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