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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Hyderabad can be harsh to a foodie like me. The haleems and the biryanis are in your face. It's hard to overcome temptations and harder not to binge.
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.
By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.
A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.
Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.
The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
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.
Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven.
Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.
It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.
If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines
We weren't the Temptations, but when we came out onstage, the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were of an inspirational quality.
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.
When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
