George Eliot Quotes

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

I'm naturally inclined to have sex with every beautiful woman I see. But that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

You know what, life is full of temptations.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The better day, the worse deed.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.