“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Written on the Body
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850), p. 65
Context: He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.”
William Beckford book Vathek
Je n'aime pas à résister à la tentation.
Source: Vathek, P. 140; translation p. 83.
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Hyman George Rickover (1900–1986) United States admiral
The Rickover Effect (1992)
Context: It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation. This is particularly hard if one has invested much time and energy on a project and thus has come to feel possessive about it. Although it is not easy to admit what a person once thought correct now appears to be wrong, one must discipline himself to face the facts objectively and make the necessary changes — regardless of the consequences to himself. The man in charge must personally set the example in this respect. He must be able, in effect, to "kill his own child" if necessary and must require his subordinates to do likewise.
