Temptation Quotes - Page 22

• I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself? 

  I. M. Pei

  Kids, Thinking, Want

  Source: archtalks.com

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• Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.

  Danny Boyle

  Skills, Knowing, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Movie, Real, Character

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• Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Character, Analysis

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• Expect temptation to your last breath.

  Anthony the Great

  Lasts, Breaths

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• After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.

  Jason Evert

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• Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Exposed, Idleness

  Saint Robert Bellarmine , Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Robert Bellarmine Collection [3 Books]”, p.1410, Aeterna Press

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• If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!

  John Vianney

  Angel, Fighting, Joy

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• As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Hero, Adversity

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• Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Mean, Answers

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• The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

  Jim Rohn

  Two, Possibility, Antiquity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 21, 2012

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• Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

  Francis Crick

  Thinking, Serious, Time Left

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• The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

  Arthur Koestler

  Satan, Dangerous, Mankind

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “Darkness at noon”

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• Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

  Robert Orben

  Real, Moving, People

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• My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

  Martin Luther

  Divinity, Masters, Has Beens

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• Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.

  Neal Boortz

  Race, Pages, Tough

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• The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stronger, Gains, Danger

  Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

  John Owen

  Evil, Gains, Serious

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• Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Hatred, Way

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• Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sin, Invites

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• Temptations discover what you are.

  Thomas a Kempis

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong, Weakness, Tempting

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• I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.

  Peter Blegvad

  Song, Clever, Believe

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Evil, Want, Lovers

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice, we can gain the courage to win all the wars of our time, even in the midst of our difficulties, challenges, and temptations. Let us trust in His #‎ love and power to save.

  Ulisses Soares

  Jesus, War, Sacrifice

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