Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. Read Summary
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Read Summary
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. Read Summary
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? Read Summary
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet. Read Summary
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Read Summary
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain. Read Summary
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Read Summary
I can resist everything except temptation. Read Summary
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Read Summary
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. Read Summary
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. Read Summary
When women go wrong, men go right after them. Read Summary
Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want. Read Summary
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. Read Summary
The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team. Read Summary
Drugs are a bet with your mind. Read Summary
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. Read Summary
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. Read Summary
I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down. Read Summary