Sentence examples for temptation to act from inspiring English sources

"No one has ever known what was going to happen, but there is this temptation to act like you did.

NASA would do well to resist the temptation to act upon the invitation inherent in the words of Dr. Michael Malin, who heads the Global Surveyor imaging team.

One ought to resist the temptation to act viciously in circumstances when vice will not be detected.

People who are shy, quiet, etc. may initially be perceived as less valuable group members, but resist the temptation to act based on those judgments.

This is the virtue that produces self-control, the ability to resist the temptation to act violently in satisfaction of desires, the temptation that, in Plato's scheme of things, characteristically leads tyrants to disaster.

The appropriate response to such a person, it seems, is on an analogy with aesthetic appreciation of natural beauty, in contrast to the admiration of the person who chooses the good in the face of real temptation to act selfishly.

In contrast to the Groundwork III argument from freedom to the validity of the moral law, the second Critique argues that our "direct consciousness" of the moral law grounds our conception of ourselves as free: Our consciousness of our ability to do what we judge that we ought to, in spite of temptations to act otherwise, makes us conscious of our freedom (CPrR 5 30).

The temptation is to act as if senior year doesn't even matter, that college is much more important.

Resist the temptation to do nothing.

Resist the temptation to move forward.

I've learned to listen, harder and longer than I have, I've learned to not give in to my temptation, as an American, to act too quickly.