Napoleon Hill Quotes
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'
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Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.
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I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they're being honest with themselves. People don't talk about it very much, but it's very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.
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Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
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It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
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Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.
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There is a temptation to have shortcuts and not put in the time and the effort. I think you have to be willing to talk to people and sit sometimes around a table and listen to other people.
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Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.
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Life well spent is long.
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He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
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I don't like to lose.
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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
