“There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.”
William Booth
“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things”
Bruce Barton
“For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.”
Catherine the Great
“It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“It's come down to where if you got no way to pay the bills, you get tempted to do something illegally.”
Brian Edwards
“I told my agent to not tell me about any offers - I didn't want to be tempted - so I didn't learn until years later that he had turned down a lot of films including The Court Jester with Danny Kaye and The Million Pound Note with Gregory Peck.”
Dinah Sheridan
“Do not tempt others by offering bribes or demean yourself by accepting bribes.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
