Temptations Quotes
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Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society. (Quote by - William Falconer)
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. (Quote by - Dan Bennett)
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. (Quote by - John Dryden)
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. (Quote by - Robert Redford)
You know what, life is full of temptations. (Quote by - Smokey Robinson)
Terrible is the temptation to be good. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. (Quote by - Lee H. Hamilton)
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friend. (Quote by - Boris Yeltsin)
Things orbidden have a secret charm. (Quote by - Tacitus)
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
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. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. (Quote by - Bible)
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to! (Quote by - Edmund Vance Cooke)
For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross. (Quote by - William Shakespear)
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding. (Quote by - Richard King)
It is easier to stay out than get out. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. (Quote by - Johann Arndt)
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. (Quote by - Anna Hoppe)
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. (Quote by - James L. Buckley)
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? (Quote by - Robert Browning)
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
I can resist anything except temptation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations. (Quote by - John Wycliffe)
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. (Quote by - Mae West)
It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
What I wanted to do was similar to what I did with [the 2003 soundtrack for] `The Fighting Temptations,` ... That was both a gospel album and a contemporary album. Here we have old and young: an adult AC record as well as a rhythmic record. (Quote by - Matthew Knowles)
Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence. (Quote by - Elizabeth Missing Sewell)
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. (Quote by - Orlando A. Battista)
Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. (Quote by - John Milton)
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man`s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. (Quote by - Robert Bork)
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. (Quote by - Lydia M. Child)
The most important lesson I`ve learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. (Quote by - Penelope Cruz)
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. (Quote by - Bible)
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. (Quote by - James Branch Cabell)
I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way. (Quote by - Thomas Jordan Jarvis)
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? (Quote by - Robert Browning)
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. (Quote by - Eduardo Galeano)
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is that temptation that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them. (Quote by - Otis Williams)
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be. (Quote by - William Allen White)
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
Virtue is insufficient temptation. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. (Quote by - Steve Lacy)
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature. (Quote by - Matthew Simpson)
What can you ever really know of other people`s souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. (Quote by - Anonymous)
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. (Quote by - Walter Annenberg)
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. (Quote by - Alyce Robertson)
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. (Quote by - T S Eliot)
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. (Quote by - Joseph De Maistre)
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Tempt not a desperate man. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. (Quote by - W N Taylor)
