“for a fat kid like me, it felt like Mount Everest.”
- Tony Stewart"I generally avoid temptation unless I can`t resist it."
- Mae WestThose who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
- Adam HallIt is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- African-American ProverbThe last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
- T.S. EliotMost people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
- Adonna WeaverThere is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- Abu HaniWhy comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
- Robert BrowningI generally avoid temptation unless I can`t resist it
- Mae WestEvery 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 YeatsThe 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.
- Oscar WildeI can resist anything but temptation.
- Oscar WildeBy persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
- Oscar Wilde`Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
- William ShakespeareTemptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
- William ShakespeareThere are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark TwainI deal with temptation by yielding to it
- Mark TwainI never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
- George Bernard ShawBlessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
- BibleMiddle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
- Dan BennettWhen 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 JampolskyGood habits result from resisting temptation
- Proverb