Tempting Quotes Quotes

It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change. ~ Gina Greenlee

Hope for the future lies in each of us looking within. By learning to feed your hunger, you can overcome the tempting illusions all around you. By discovering who you are, you can stop basing your self-image solely on other people's ideas about you. By connecting to your inner strength, you can stop cycling between idealistic illusions and self-hating disillusionment. By taking responsibility for yourself, you can stop relying on others to take responsibility for you. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense ~ Frederic Bastiat

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision". ~ Bill Gates

But it's tempting, isn't it, to give somebody like Olympia or Fenleigh a taste of their own medicine? To get even?'
I agree it's tempting. *Really* tempting. But it doesn't solve anything. It just perpetuates the problem by making us as bad as them. And we don't need any more of them, do we? ~ Jean Ferris

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day. ~ Douglas Coupland

Follow your dreams, not the crowd. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny. ~ Tony Benn

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it. ~ Ruth Reichl

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set. ~ Roger Moore

Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That's what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength. ~ C.M. Rayne

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting. ~ David Ginola

Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others. ~ Mensah Oteh

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers. ~ Charlie Cox

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. ~ Peter Weiss

Warriors achieve more than worriers. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is revealed progressively. ~ Mensah Oteh

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always. ~ Mensah Oteh

You are perfect, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today. ~ Mensah Oteh

Life has a sense of humour; it hides its best treasures in unexpected places. ~ Mensah Oteh

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses ... ~ Lucy Larcom

A helping hand is better than a critical tongue. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stop trying to understand people. Love them instead. ~ Mensah Oteh

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them. ~ Simon Van Booy

Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead. ~ Mensah Oteh

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes. ~ Chuck Eddy

Intimacy should not be given casually; there should be a price. And it shouldn't be negotiable. ~ Mensah Oteh

Behind every clever man is an even cleverer woman. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences. ~ Sara Blecher

Anyone can find the bad in any situation but it takes love to see the good in all things. ~ Mensah Oteh

You cannot reach the stars feet on the ground. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Greatness has a fragrance. Get close to it and that fragrance will arouse your potential. ~ Mensah Oteh

Always see people smarter than you as gifts, not competition. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is the masterpiece of your enemies to make you doubt your genius. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A fish doesn't need swimming gear when you throw it into the ocean. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You were given fingers to count your own blessings, not someone else's. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The beginning of a nations self defeat is when it denigrates the powerful capabilities of its own people. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Be a lamp in someone's dark world. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! ~ William Shakespeare

A lion's strength does not lie in its roar. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth cannot enter a virtuous soul without illuminating it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Investing in your mind is the best investment
you can make. ~ Mensah Oteh

We are like caterpillars, we die so we can be reborn in a higher state. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love has no spear but conquers hearts. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug. ~ Caroline Knapp

Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist. ~ Jillian Michaels

The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how many times you cut down a resilient tree, it will keep growing. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to dig a grave faster than anyone, use ignorance. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm just like an open book, it's words that you'll never understand. ~ Huzaifa Bin Fayyaz

Small truths have greater power than big lies. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

God leaves footprints wherever He goes;
love alone uncovers them. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge helps its enemies, but ignorance harms even its friends. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving in this lifetime, real love still lives. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The greatest gift you can open is your heart to someone in need. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Groundbreaker! Stomp the ground and make your mark. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The riper a tree's fruit, the more stones people cast at it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is the soul's rainbow. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Progress is a vague concept, if there is no vision to progress towards. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Anyone can point to the ocean, but only the brave get past the shore. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Count the roses, not the thorns. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A warrior experiences many burials, but only one death. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We do not rise by making other people fall. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your losses are the starting points of your gains. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We don't look the devil in the eye because we are afraid of seeing our own reflection. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

My heart is filled with profound gratitude to God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to know what heaven is like, marry an angel. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Prejudice is a plague that can only be eradicated by love. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't waste time looking at the thorns or you'll miss the roses. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The saddest sound in the universe is made when the heart breaks. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The only job of a student is to become greater than his master. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An ounce of love is worth more than a tonne of gold. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is easier to tame a thousand bulls than to tame yourself. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The world sees color, children only see love. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you drop a gold coin in mud, it does not lose its value. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I would rather die doing good than live doing evil. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Students quit when they are tired; sages quit only when they have won. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

History is full of people who thought they were right
absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same. ~ John D. Barrow

Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The impact of relationships can be subtle yet powerful. Make a conscious effort to them choose wisely. ~ Mensah Oteh

Unapologetic for My Flaws and ALL! ~ Charlena E. Jackson

You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbour, and the experiences you cherish. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The moment you learn the lesson, the test will be over. ~ Henna Sohail

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body. ~ Valerie Bertinelli

Meekness is not weakness, but weakness can be masked as meekness. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You better put an S on your forehead, cause your name must be stupid. ~ Euphoria Godsent

Stars announce their presence with beauty, not words; do likewise. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo