Temptation Quote by Robert Browning

A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just…

— John Ruskin

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of…

— Homer

“It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is…

— Thomas à Kempis

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

— Stendhal

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

— Horace Mann

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

— Indra Devi

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

— James Allen

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to…

— D. H. Lawrence

One of the noblest men are those who try to keep their feet firm on the ground even if they are soaring high.

— Anonymous

“It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may…

— Marquis de Sade