(232 quotes found)
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
T.S. Eliot
“Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself.”
Elias A. Ford
“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.”
Franklin P. Jones
“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation”
Bob Hope
“Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.”
James Buckham
“We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.”
Thomas Kempis
