Quotations about Temptation
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"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."- Buddha
"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."- Franklin P. Jones
"Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."- Ambrose Bierce
"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."- Margaret Oliphant
"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."- C.S. Lewis
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self."- Aristotle
"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."- Franklin P. Jones
"It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones."- John W. DeForest
"The discipline of desire is the background of character."- Unknown
"Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure."- Joseph De Maistre
"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."- Eduardo Galeano
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."- Mae West
More Great Temptation Quotes
"Virtue is insufficient temptation."- George Bernard Shaw
"Tempt not a desperate man."- William Shakespeare
"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?"- Robert Browning
"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred."- W N Taylor
"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."- Lane Olinghouse
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."- Walter Bagehot
"I deal with temptation by yielding to it."- Mark Twain
"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."- William Butler Yeats
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."- Sam Levenson
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