Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Christine Feehan

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

Jean-Paul Sartre

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

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.

Frederick William Faber

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Harry Browne

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

C. S. Lewis

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

C. S. Lewis

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Jean de la Bruyere

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

Jean Anouilh

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Jane Porter

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Gary Bauer

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

Fulton J. Sheen

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

Fulton J. Sheen

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Jean de La Fontaine

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

Grover Cleveland

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

Frank Herbert

There's a lesson in every temptation.

Frank Herbert

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Honore de Balzac

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

J. K. Rowling

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Jerry Bridges

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

Jerry Bridges

We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

Kirk Hammett

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

Julia Bacha

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

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.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Oswald Chambers

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

Oswald Chambers

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Oswald Chambers

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.