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Temptation Quotes

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Franklin P. Jones

Values Temptation Nothing Sound Set

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

Soul Energy Stronger Temptation New

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

Memory Temptation Satisfaction Than

There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.

Power People Think Temptation Vote

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Temptation Wrong Treason Right Last

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Temptation Avoid Resist Unless

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

Life Me Temptation Everything

They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.

Me Thought Learn Temptation Young

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.

Food Man Exercise Temptation Knife

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

Good Song You Temptation Honey Beat

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

Smokey Robinson

Temptation Going Victims Our Points

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Myself Me Temptation Find I Can Way

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today Day Night Every Day Temptation

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

Yourself Mystery You Temptation Know

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Christopher Hitchens

Temptation Permanent Cancer Even

There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used my song in the background.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Song Voice Famous Temptation Used

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

Work Artist Temptation Repetition

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Character Day Me Temptation Create

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Henry Kissinger

Believe American Temptation Policy

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Franklin P. Jones

People Temptation Want Difficult

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

Temptation Apartment Resist Curate

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

Jacqueline Carey

Power Struggle Temptation Everyone

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Edwin Louis Cole

God Knowledge Temptation Accusation

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Funny Temptation Find Lead Tell Us

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