Quietly Measure Character

Things You Can Actually Choose

often the sign that one possesses a genuine power of action.

is dealt with most surely by yielding to it.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it. Mark Twain

is the only thing most people aren't able to resist.

Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation. Bob Hope

is, in each case, the vessel of a lesson.

There's a lesson in every temptation. Frank Herbert

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is that which one need not worry about avoiding. As you grow older, it will avoid you.

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. . . As you grow older, it will avoid you. (Winston Churchill)

There is a cure for temptation. What' Yielding to it. Honore de Balzac

is most successfully resisted by a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values, and witnesses.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values and witnesses.