28 quotes about Temptation
Click here to search the web for Temptation



Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Adams, Joey quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Battista, Orlando A. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? [Ecclesiasticus]
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bible quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee. [Psalms 119:9-11]
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bible quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bradley, Francis H. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bunting, Basil quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bunyan, John quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Emerson, Ralph Waldo quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Faber, Frederick W. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Galeano, Eduardo quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Herold, Don quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Hope, Anthony quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Johnson, Samuel quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Kempis, Thomas quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Lichtenberg, Georg C. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Maistre, Joseph De quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Mencken, H. L. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Milton, John quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Oliphant, Margaret quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Ovid quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Shakespeare, William quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Shakespeare, William quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

It is easier to stay out than get out.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Twain, Mark quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | West, Mae quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

I can resist everything except temptation.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Wilde, Oscar quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Wilde, Oscar quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Wilde, Oscar quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK