Temptation Quotes - Page 29

The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.

In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.

Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.

As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.

In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government valuable they may be, have no market price and, therefore, cannot be subjected to profit-and-loss accounting.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.