Temptation Quotes

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

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

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

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

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

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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