Temptation Quotes

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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's… — David Attenborough
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right… — Henry Ward Beecher
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by… — Theodore Bikel
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties… — Erma Bombeck
People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't… — Katherine Boo
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we… — Robert Bork
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… — Anthony Bourdain
Temptation to behave is terrible. — Bertolt Brecht
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. — Rita Mae Brown
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? — Robert Browning
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. — James Branch Cabell
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. — James Allen
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. — Walter Annenberg
The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from… — Seraphim of Sarov
Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism,… — Rick Warren
The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have… — Reuben Archer Torrey
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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