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The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team. Jocko Willink

Success, Morning, Leader, Discipline

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. John Piper

Good, Future, God, Hope, Yourself, You

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work. Klaus Schwab

Work, Change, Tired, New Things, New

I can resist everything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde

Funny, I Can, Everything, Resist, Except

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. Charles Stanley

Alone, Challenge, Face, Commitment, Long

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas Merton

Human, Little, Settle, Too, Biggest

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bitterness, Never, Succumb

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. - Joey Adams

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. Joey Adams

Funny, You, Grow, Worry, Avoiding, Will

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. - T. S. Eliot

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot

Wrong, Right, Reason, Last, Greatest

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. Michael Ignatieff

Politics, Truth, Promises, People, End

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. Billy Sunday

Looking, Devil, Door, Opening, Him

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength, Wisdom, Gain, Resist

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. - Sam Levenson

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. Sam Levenson

Funny, Find, Tell, Us, Lead, Just

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. - Mark Twain

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Mark Twain

Good, Against, Cowardice, Several

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. - Robert A. Heinlein

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein

Funny, Way, Your, May, Pass, Again

Remove all the junk from one's house. Then one doesn't have to deal with the temptation. If you get hungry enough, you will eat that apple. Michael Greger

You, Enough, House, Apple, Eat, Will

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. John Owen

Man, Food, Knife, Exercise, Meat, Poison

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. Erma Bombeck

Marriage, Home, Time, Me, Husband, Job

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. - Mae West

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. Mae West

Avoid, Resist, Unless, Generally

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation. Tim Tebow

Faith, Yourself, People, You, Perfect

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. Smokey Robinson

Our, Going, Victims, Our Lives, Points

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. Oscar Wilde

Strength, Courage, Think, You, Weakness

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today, Day, Night, Every Day, Will, Our

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. George Muller

Prayer, Enjoy, Reading, Enjoyment, Satan

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome. Harmony Korine

Romantic, Welcome, Me, Child, Place, Sin

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. Vincent Nichols

Life, Love, Forgiveness, Death, Power

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