Quotes by Temptation There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food. Lisa Ann Walter anxiety temptation views The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them. Lord Chesterfield motivation temptation action I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it. Lord Chesterfield temptation age feelings I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. Lucy Maud Montgomery temptation writing book ... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted. Louisa May Alcott temptation integrity thinking Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. Lyman Abbott vices temptation life One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense. Ludwig Wittgenstein common-sense philosophical temptation The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. Madeleine de Scudery monument virtue temptation 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 empowerment temptation heart Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections. Magdalena de Pazzi imperfection soul temptation I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more. Marcia Cross surgery temptation faces Resisted temptations become lost opportunities. Margaret Ayer Barnes temptation lost opportunity Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? Margaret Atwood indispensable temptation I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. Margaret Drabble machines laptops temptation We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business. Margaret Deland devil lonely temptation There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation. Margaret Deland virtue temptation Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. Margaret Oliphant self-help temptation inspirational Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. Margaret of Valois moral-strength tests temptation No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology. Margaret Mead mastery technology temptation Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves. Mahatma Gandhi learning temptation education «1819202122232425262728»
