Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grover Cleveland

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

Ezra Taft Benson

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

Ezra Taft Benson

When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.

Francis Chan

I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

Jim Elliot

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

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.

Billy Graham

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

Nicolas Chamfort

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Ralph Neas

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

Lyman Abbott

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Margaret Oliphant

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Mason Cooley

Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.

John Ruskin

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

John Milton

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

Thelma Golden

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

Margaret Drabble

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

Michael Horton

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

Park Chan-wook

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Smokey Robinson

You know what, life is full of temptations

Smokey Robinson

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Ovid

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

Ovid

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

Tim Donnelly

It was a big temptation to go to Perth,

David A. Bednar

Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

David Ogilvy

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Gelett Burgess

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Gena Showalter

I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.