Temptation Quotes - Page 39

• Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.

  George Downame

  Unseen, Affliction, Bills

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• It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

  Alistair Begg

  Desire, Overcoming, Determined

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• It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system

  Ed Seykota

  Jumping, Feelings, Arise

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• It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter. ... The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Pain, Punishment, Play

  "Jim Harbaugh comfortable in chaos" by Seth Wickersham, www.espn.com. October 02, 2014.

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• My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fear… we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas.

  Don Moen

  Prayer, Fall, Suffering

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• I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

  Mike Gayle

  Order, Feels

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• People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  People, Evil, Giving

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• Staying curious and open is what makes growth
  possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

  Scott Berkun

  Views, Practice, Growth

  Scott Berkun (2008). “Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the hopes of pleasing them. This motivation is nice. And sometimes the end result is good. But often what happens in trying so hard to please other people, especially many other people, the result is mediocre.

  Scott Berkun

  Motivation, Nice, People

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• Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Empowerment, Promise

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.104, Thomas Nelson

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• When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.

  Ralph Marston

  Over You, Progress, Facts

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• Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Overcoming, Holiness

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• Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

  John Owen

  Hate, Men, Two

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• There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Opportunity

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• Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.

  F.B. Meyer

  Children, Blessing, Journey

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• Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

  Thomas Adams

  Half, Way, Virtue

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• A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Adventure, Army, Tranquility

  Constitutional Convention, 1787.

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• The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

  Otis Williams

  Today, Spite, Stills

  Otis Williams, Patricia Romanowski, Patricia Romanowski Bashe (2002). “Temptations”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

  Solomon Northup

  Men, Evil, Credit

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.144, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Leaving, Sin, Pleasure

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• I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

  Gary Bauer

  Crow, Credit, Urges

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• In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.

  William Eckhardt

  Strong, Loss, Winning

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• Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.

  Sivananda

  Wise, Spiritual, Giving Up

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• All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suicide, Fall, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

  George H. W. Bush

  Business, Men, Paper

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