Temptation Quotes


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“for a fat kid like me, it felt like Mount Everest.”

- Tony Stewart

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can`t resist it."

- Mae West
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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

- Adam Hall

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

- African-American Proverb

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

- T.S. Eliot

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

- Adonna Weaver

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

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

- Robert Browning

I generally avoid temptation unless I can`t resist it

- Mae West
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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

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.

- Oscar Wilde

I can resist anything but temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

By 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 Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

- Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

- Mark Twain

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

- Bible
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.

- Dan Bennett

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

Good habits result from resisting temptation

- Proverb
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