Tempted Quotes - Page 9

• Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

  Michael Howard

  Thinking, Muggers, Prison

  "Howard seeks to placate 'angry majority". The Independent, October 7, 1993.

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• Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

  Christopher Morley

  Blessed, Frailty, Rectitude

  Christopher Morley (1933). “Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley”

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• He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Fists, Fighter

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• Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.

  Richard Cecil

  Eye, Dying, Events

  Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.262

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• I'm tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let's cast our net wider. 1) Not being able to write as well as we hoped we could. 2) Not being able to write at all. 3) Rejection.

  Ralph Keyes

  Writing, Rejection, Three

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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• Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn't want to live in a world where all wild things - without and within - are domesticated.

  Sam Keen

  World, Want, Realizing

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.

  John Vianney

  Jesus, Night, Soul

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• Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.

  John Dryden

  Imagination, Might, Shut Up

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.121

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• Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

  Og Mandino

  Gossip, Scratches, Tongue

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.51, Bantam

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• A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Men, Inferiority

  "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the work that dramatically?’ I testify to you that it will. You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Differences, May, Able

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• Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

  Robert Harbison

  Attitude, Way, Ruins

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• I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Keys, Challenges

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

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• To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Sin, Made, Forts

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• We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Taught, Circumstances

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If we lose a job, we are easily tempted into thoughts like, "Ain't it awful? There aren't any jobs out there. This is terrible. It'll be awhile before the economy comes back. Even if they're hiring someone, they're not hiring someone my age with my resume." And that's really what causes the crash and burn. The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Age, Awful

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."

  Jim Shepard

  Thinking, Details, Sticks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, United States, Reason

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Dream, Book, Character

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

  Elias Hicks

  Devil, Without You, Within You

  Elias Hicks (1825). “A Series of Extemporaneous Discourses: Delivered in the Several Meetings of the Society of Friends”, p.166

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• Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Thinking, Guiding Principles, Self

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• There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Parent, Sloth, Sin

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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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• Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Special

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

  Frank Abagnale

  Moral, Honest, Employers

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