Temptation Quotes

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bitterness, Succumb

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

Everything, Rid, Resist

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Joey Adams

Worry, Older, Grow

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Except, Resist

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

Good, Against, Cowardice

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

Strength, Courage, Tell

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

Dangerous, Virtue, Loving

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

Strength, Gain, Resist

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West

Unless, Avoid, Resist

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.
Erma Bombeck

Time, Home, Wedding

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw

Bad, Found, Resist

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

Marriage, Popular, Maximum

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein

May, Again, Pass

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken

Woman, Excuse, Weapon

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton

Human, Biggest, Settle

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky

Life, Peace, Mind

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. Mencken

Work, Body, Force

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today, Night, Themselves

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
William Butler Yeats

Before, Soul, Energy

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Charles Stanley

Alone, Long, Friends

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot

Greatest, Wrong, Reason

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell

Human, Felt, Achieve

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II

Freedom, Today, True

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

Person, Himself, Weak

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke

Men, Passion, Interest

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
Matthew Henry

Gay, Dangerous, Fine

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry A. Kissinger

American, Policy, Foreign

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

God, Knowledge, Against

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