Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.
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!
Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.
The emphasis of that statement about my temptation to switch to the separatist side in Quebec was that someone who obviously loves Canada with everything he has, has been right here and fights for Canada all the time - for him to say something like that, something must be very wrong with Canada.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This temptation must be resisted; tax considerations aside, when a security reaches full valuation, there is no longer a reason to own it.
Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.
Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. . . Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.
After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.
Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
. . . the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?