Temptations Quotes

261 quotes by 213 authors

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
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
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
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them — A.J. Cronin
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations! — Elizabeth Bishop
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
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. — Edward Gibbon
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
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.
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
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. — George Eliot
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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