Temptation Quotes - Page 8

• I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

  Mark Twain

  Deals

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• It is opportunity that makes the thief.

  Seneca the Younger

  Opportunity, Thieves

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• Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Home, Exercise

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• Temptation to behave is terrible.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Literature, Terrible, Behave

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• In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Comfort, Spirit

  Robert Herrick (1891). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• Terrible is the temptation to be good.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Terrible, Be Good

  Bertolt Brecht (1960). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle, translated by J. and T. Stern, with W.H. Auden. The threepenny opera, translated by D.I. Vesey and E. Bentley. The trial of Lucullus, translated by H.R. Hays. The life of Galileo, translated by D.I. Vesey”

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• The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Skills, Devil

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• So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Waiting, Want, Clay

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• Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Blood, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.56

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• About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

  Tom Wilson

  Love, Fun, Sunset

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• Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Eye, Men, Afterlife

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.235, Routledge

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• Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Inspirational, Self Help, Tempted

  Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.533, The Floating Press

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• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Gains, Tempted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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• It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Achievement, Smoking

  Following the Equator ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Justice, Trials

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Gold, Bells

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 12

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• Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Motivational, Self Control, Scream

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• What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love Life, People, Tasks

  "In the Name of Jesus". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1989.

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• We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

  Tami Hoag

  Judgement, Quality, Assuming

  Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.62, Bantam

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• Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

  Edward de Bono

  Bible, Submission To God, Devil

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• Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Sometimes, Potency

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet”, p.472

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• Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. But when the will sighs under the trial of the tempter and does not will what is presented to it, there is not only no fault but there is virtue.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

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• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Each man kills the thing he loves.

  Anthony Burgess

  Broken Heart, Betrayal, Men

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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