“The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.”
As quoted in Forbes (4 August 1980).
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“Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.”
All for a Pinch of Snuff, c. 1910. Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 64.

Flash Crowd, section 9, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 74

"Human Touch"
Song lyrics, Human Touch (1992)