Quotes of Inducement - somelinesforyou

“ Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? ”

- Robert Browning

“ But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. ”

- Bible

“ We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ”

- Dan Bennett

“ He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.... Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. ”

- Horace Mann

“ How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee. ”

- Bible

“ It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”

- James Branch Cabell

“ I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ”

- Mae West

“ The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different. ”

- Rick Pitino

“ As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ”

- Matthew

“ Great success is a great temptation. ”

- Theodore Parker

“ Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. ”

- Earl Wilson

“ For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation. ”

- William Penn

“ None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted,I sometimes wonder if we shall not findThat not by deeds, but by what we've resisted,Our places are assigned. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Without temptation the soul cannot grow. ”

- James Allen

“ The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with. ”

- George Ade

“ Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall. ”

- James Joyce

“ There's a lesson in every temptation. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flameAnd every time I pass that way I always hear my name. ”

- Bob Dylan
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