Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas a Kempis

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

Piers Anthony

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

Rabindranath Tagore

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

Karl Popper

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

Otis Williams

The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

Jonah Hill

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

James L. Buckley

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.

Garrison Keillor

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Francois Fenelon

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

Freida Pinto

As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

Henri Nouwen

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

Henry Ward Beecher

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

Charles Stanley

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

Bertolt Brecht

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Agnes Repplier

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Bobby Keys

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

Bob Hope

Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.

Brennan Manning

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Robert Kiyosaki

Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in.

Craig Thompson

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

Alexander Pope

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Don Herold

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Donald Miller

I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.

Ambrose Bierce

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Albert Camus

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

Thomas F. Wilson

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Thomas S. Monson

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.

T. S. Eliot

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

Thomas Jefferson

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.