Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

Here are some inspirational quotes on temptations or rather avoiding temptation and self control to resist temptation. We are all inherently good and strong, but the temptations ge the better of us and are often stronger that we give in to it and do things that we regret and do things that will stop us from being successful. But then it is in our genes. Men have always found it difficult to resist temptation, and so have women.

Here are some inspirational quotes that will save you from temptations if you tried, harder.

Don’t seek temptations:
“Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ”
~Alyce Robertson

“The most important lesson I`ve learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. ”
~Penelope Cruz

“There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friend… ”
~Boris Yeltsin

“What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.”
~ Steve Lacy

“What can you ever really know of other people`s souls – of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands.”
~ C.S. Lewis on temptations

“The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.”
~Matthew Simpson

“The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.”
~John Wycliffe

“God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.”
~Walter Annenberg

“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
~Oscar Wilde

“A good poor man is better than a good rich man because he has to resist more temptations. ”
~ R. W. Livingstone

“The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.”
~ Neil Anderson

“Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.”
~ W. Somerset Maugham

“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
~Robert Orben

Here are some inspirational tolerance quotes.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
~Giacomo Leopardi

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ~Helen Keller

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
~ Henry David Thoreau

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
~Hedy Lamarr

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
~ Sir Walter Besant

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
~W. Somerset Maugham

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.
~Scott Hamilton

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
~Giacomo Leopardi

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
~Dalai Lama’s quote on Tolerance

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Kahlil Gibran

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
~Emile Zola

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
~ George Eliot

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~Ralph W. Sockman on courage and tolerance

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
~Albert Einstein

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
~Edmund Burke

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
~Voltaire

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory comes in the end, and but it is the sight of victory in your dreams and thoughts that will inspire you to fight, and to walk that extra mile when everyone else are exhausted. Here are some famous victory quotes.

And when you are defeated, do understand that it is not the end of the world, and success comes to those who refuses to yield. And pasts defeats will only add to the sweetness of your victories later:

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
~Malcolm S. Forbes

“If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“Victory is a thing of the will.”
~General Ferdinand Foch

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
~ Louis L’Amour

“Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
~John Milton

“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”
~ St. Augustine

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first.”
~ Harry S Truman

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”
~Winston Churchill

“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
~Harriet Woods

“If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.”
~William Hazlitt

“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.”
~Zig Ziglar

“I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.”
~Joan Benoit Samuelson

“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”
~Blaise Pascal

“The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.”
~ Plato

“Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
~Daisaku Ikeda

“The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.”
~ F. A. Wickett

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
~Sun Tzu

“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
~Sun Tzu

“The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.”
~Wilma Rudolph

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
~Aristotle