Desire Quote by John William De Forest Download Open image “It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.” — John William De Forest ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Failure Inspirational Littles Lure Novelists Ruins Temptation
Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be - is… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
