Napoleon Hill Quotes
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.Napoleon Hill
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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.
Ian Mckellen -
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.
J. M. Coetzee -
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Edmund Morgan -
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson -
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken
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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.'
T. B. Joshua -
Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.
Andy Grammer -
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.
Andy Grammer -
Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
Jake Tapper -
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell -
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.
Kevin DeYoung
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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.
Philip Kerr -
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.
Jacqueline Carey -
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.
Bob Newhart -
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott -
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.
James E. Faust -
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.
Alexandra Cassavetes
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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
Soren Kierkegaard -
The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
Nat King Cole -
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.
Ziggy Marley -
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
Albert Camus -
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
Napoleon Hill