Temptation Quotes - page 4

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. (Anne Baxter)
It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it. View quote
Bob Newhart
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence. View quote
Thomas Gilovich
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. View quote
Raymond Carver
It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once. View quote
Anna Held
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. View quote
David McCullough
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. View quote
Dinesh D'Souza
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want. View quote
Don Mattingly
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur. View quote
Harold Prince
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting. View quote
Jeremy Lin
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. (Jim Sensenbrenner)
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. View quote
John Owen
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. View quote
Lyman Abbott
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. View quote
Roger Mahony
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. View quote
Theodore Bikel
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way. View quote
Ugo Betti
Over the next three years, governments will have to choose whether or not to adopt this new people-centric framework for development. The temptation for political leaders to retreat to a safer, more conventional approach will mean a strong global grassroots campaign will thus be necessary to build pressure for adoption of these groundbreaking and transformative elements recommended in the report. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
Israel is different. In Israel the great temptation of modernity - assimilation - simply does not exist. Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity. It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I find the new liturgy a temptation against Faith, Hope and Charity but I shall never, pray God, apostatise. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The Court's statement that it is 'tempting' to acknowledge the authoritativeness of tradition in order to 'curb the discretion of federal judges' is, of course, rhetoric rather than reality; no government official is 'tempted' to place restraints upon his own freedom of action, which is why Lord Acton did not say 'Power tends to purify.' The Court's temptation is in the quite opposite and more natural direction -- towards systematically eliminating checks upon its own power; and it succumbs. (Antonin Scalia)
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity. View quote
Horace Mann
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. View quote
Hans Küng
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. View quote
William Hazlitt
Do we refer to the purposes of the Charter? They are expressions of universally shared ideals which cannot fail us, though we, alas, often fail them. Or do we think of the institutions of the United Nations? They are our tools. We fashioned them. We use them. It is our responsibility to remedy any flaws there may be in them.... This is a difficult lesson for both idealists and realists, though for different reasons. I suppose that, just as the first temptation of the realist is the illusion of cynicism, so the first temptation of the idealist is the illusion of Utopia. View quote
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