Temptation Quotes

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

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

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.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

I can resist anything but temptation.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

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

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

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

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

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

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

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

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

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

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