Temptation Quotes - Page 6

• For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

  Felix Dennis

  Appetite

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• The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Another Chance, May, Problem

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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Passion

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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

  Seneca the Younger

  Passion, Character, Night

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

  George Orwell

  People, Saint, Literature

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

  William Hazlitt

  Liberty, Libertarian, Prohibition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

  F. H. Bradley

  Struggle, Blow, Yield

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.

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• The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

  Horace Mann

  Fall, Yield, Law

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.184

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• Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

  Robert South

  Men, Needs, Praying

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• These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Sports, Athlete, Use

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• Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

  Mike DeWine

  Judging, Needs, Resolution

  Mike DeWine at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Hearing on The Nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of The Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2005.

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• Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Opportunity, Inclination, Concurrence

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• 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, Yield, Arise

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.70

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• Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Devil, Spirit

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.459

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• He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

  Robert South

  Wise, Mind, Devil

  Robert South (1877). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions: With the Chief Heads of the Sermons, a Biographical Memoir, and General Index”, p.441

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• A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Beautiful, Use, Her Beauty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

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• Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

  George Eliot

  Cutting, Two, Ties

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6046, Delphi Classics

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• Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Bird, Peculiar

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• When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Hatred, Inspire

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• One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Philosopher, Metaphysics

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.119

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• Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Victory, Tears, Cry

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• How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fall, Men, Righteous Man

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.37

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• An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

  Samuel Richardson

  Heart, Honest, Bad Company

  Samuel Richardson (1856). “Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative”, p.94

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• An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

  Samuel Richardson

  Littles, Sanctify, Begets

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• No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

  George Eliot

  Art, Men, Wells

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1664, ShandonPress

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