Thoughts of Famous Temptation Quotes in English

It's all very well to say resist temptation, but it's ever so much easier to resist it if you can't get the key.

- L.M.Montgomery

Temptations have their degrees, they are at first mere thoughts and do not appear dangerous; the imagination receives them without any fears; the pleasure grows; we dwell upon it, and at last we yield to it.

- Pierre Abélard

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

- Sivananda

Even in cases where most people are doing the right thing, talking about the minority who are doing the wrong thing can encourage people to give in to temptation.

- Jonah Berger

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.

- John Corwin

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.

- Randy Alcorn

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

- Steve Maraboli

The temptation for humans to steal glory from something or someone is not a new thing. We long to be known, to be championed and glorified.

- Jonathan Hayashi

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

- John Bunyan

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

Temptation Quotes List and Sayings in English

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

-Mae West

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers.

- Chinese Proverbs

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

- Toba Beta Quotation

Maybe, said their eyes, they're already here.

- A Quotation From Ray Bradbury

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

- Temptation Quotes in English by Jane Seabrook

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

- Billy Graham

Don't let the eyes guide the heart, but have the heart guide the eyes.

- Anthony Liccione

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

- Mae West

I can resist anything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

The worst temptation is instant gratification.

- Jon Luvelli

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

- Orlando A. Battista

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

- Billy Graham

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

- John Dryden

He had stirred my emotion and fractured my resistance, but I carried an unbreakable love.

- Meredith T. Taylor

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

- Oscar Wilde

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

- Billy Graham

Temptation requires definite, decisive action.

- Billy Graham

Only a strong faith - a faith based on God’s Word - will protect us from temptation and doubt.

- Billy Graham

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.

- Charles H. Spurgeon

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

- Dan Groat

It’s always the ones we’re not supposed to have who are the most irresistible.

- E.M. Denning

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

- Margaret Atwood,

Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.

- Tamora Pierce

Eve was tempted not by wealth or love but by knowledge.

- Philip Pullman

Temptation doesn't entail solicitation.

- Andy Harglesis

Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence.

- Noel DeJesus

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

- William Shakespeare

Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim.

- James C. Dobson

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

- unknown

If you don't want trouble, don't go looking for it.

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The crow may be caged but his thoughts are in the cornfield.

- Belizean

Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.

- Arnold Glasow

Temptation Quotes List

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

- Thomas Brooks

There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.

- Alexander McCall Smith

While you and I have to expect temptation, we sure don’t have to feed it.

- Paula Hendricks

If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

- Ovid

When a man wants nothing, it's evil to tempt him with something.

- Marty Rubin

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

- Anthony Marais

Resist the temptation to make yourself miserable.

- Marty Rubin

Curiosity killed the cat.

- E. O'Neill

The devil tempts but doesn't force.

- Guyanan

Every temptation comes with a choice.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

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

- Thomas Kempis

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Benjamin Franklin

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

- Francois Fenelon

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

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

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

If you are facing some kind of temptation, remember that it is within your power to get the victory over it.

- Sunday Adelaja *

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

- Franklin P. Jones

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

- Mark Twain

The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness.

- Sunday Adelaja

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

- Dillon Burroughs

Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting.

- Rick Warren

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

- Terry Pratchett

Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control.

- Chris Hodges

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

- J.K. Rowling

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

- Lucy Diamond

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

- Laurence Peter

Before you can resist troubles of life, you need to resist temptations of life.

- Amit Kalantri

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

- W. N. Taylor Download or Share

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

- Walter Bagehot Download or Share

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

- Temptation Quotes by Mae West Download or Share

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

- Temptation Quotes by Ancient Proverb Download or Share

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

- Temptation Quotes by Lane Olinghouse Download or Share

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

- Mark Twain Download or Share

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

- Temptation Quotes by James Branch Cabell Download or Share

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

- Temptation Quotes by George Bernard Shaw Download or Share

I can resist anything but temptation.

- Oscar Wilde Download or Share

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

- T. S. Eliot Download or Share

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

- Will Rogers Download or Share

I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone.

- Joanne Harris

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

- Francis H. Bradley

There are intersections of integrity and temptation in every career and every life. The challenge is to do the right thing no matter what.

- Bill Gates

You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice.

- Donna Lynn Hope

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

But a good wife a good unworldly woman - may really help a man, and keep him more independent.

- George Eliot

Temptation can sway even the purest mind to sin, and the denialist to claim that tomorrow will bring change. However, the irrefutable truth is - tomorrow, my friend, never comes.

- Jason Worthley

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

- George Eliot

Pray that temptation may not come upon you, but when it does come, accept it as something not alien but your own.

- Mark the Ascetic

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

- John Owen

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

- Thomas Merton Thoughts

I had run away from all this, but the devil still tempted that stupid little girl. She knew better than most what would come of that.

- Jessica Hawkins Thought

But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

- Michael Swanwick

The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.

- Anthony Ryan

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

- Toba Beta

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

- Sara Sheridan

The temptation to spend money increases as a person’s opportunities increase.

- Sunday Adelaja

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

- Billy Sunday

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

- Thomas Merton

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

- Catherynne M. Valente

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

- Abraham Maslow