Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Conroy

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Neal A. Maxwell

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

Oscar Wilde

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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.

Margaret Atwood

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Margaret Thatcher

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

Margaret Deland

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Barbara Hambly

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.

Theodore Parker

Great success is a great temptation.

Tim Donnelly

It was a big temptation to go to Perth,

James Anthony Froude

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Henry B. Eyring

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us.

Mahatma Gandhi

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

James Richardson

Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.

James Russell Lowell

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

Napoleon Hill

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Ellen G. White

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

John Bunyan

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

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.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

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!"

Hilaire Belloc

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Henry Ward Beecher

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.