Quotes with temptation

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  • Sherlock Holmes The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Cesare Pavese At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joey Adams Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
    Joey Adams
    American comedian (1911 - 1999)
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  • Oscar Wilde Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Frederick W. Faber Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • E. M. Cioran Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • John Wooden For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Aldous Huxley Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can resist everything except temptation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mae West I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anne Baxter 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
    American actress (1923 - 1985)
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  • Anna Held It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Bob Newhart 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.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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