Temptation Quotes

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

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

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

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

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

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.

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

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

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

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

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

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

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

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

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

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

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

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.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

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

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.