The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
~By Otis Williams ~
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.
~By Matthew Henry ~
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
~By George Orwell ~
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
~By Larry McMurtry ~
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
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 that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
~By John Wycliffe ~
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
~By James A. Michener ~
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
~By Penelope Cruz ~
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
~By Robert Orben ~
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
~By Mike DeWine ~
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
~By 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.
~By James L. Buckley ~
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
~By Ugo Betti ~
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
~By Thomas Merton ~
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
~By George A. Smith ~
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
~By Robert Redford ~
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
~By Mae West ~
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
~By Tom Wilson ~
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
~By Mark Twain ~
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 must ask that our judges adhere.
~By Robert Bork ~
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
~By Victoria Secunda ~
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.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
~By Frederick William Faber ~
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
~By Billy Sunday ~
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
~By Fred Barnes ~
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
~By Matthew Henry ~
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
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 omission.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
~By Earl Wilson ~
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
~By Edward Zwick ~
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
~By Northrop Frye ~
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
~By Jim Sensenbrenner ~
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
~By Rowan Williams ~
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.
~By Richard King ~
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
~By Ring Lardner ~
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
~By Anthony Hope ~
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
~By Larry Flynt ~
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
~By Orlando A. Battista ~
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
~By William Falconer ~
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
~By Anne Baxter ~
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
~By John Owen ~
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
~By Don Herold ~
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
~By Thomas Boston ~
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
~By David McCullough ~
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
~By Margaret Oliphant ~
I can resist everything except temptation.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
~By Anna Held ~
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
~By Johann Arndt ~
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~By James Branch Cabell ~
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
~By Sam Levenson ~
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
~By Jane Byrne ~
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
~By James Allen ~
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
~By Robert South ~
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
~By Hans Kung ~
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
~By John Gardner ~
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
You know what, life is full of temptations.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
~By Roger Mahony ~
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
~By John Locke ~
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