Top 27 Opportunity Temptation Quotes
#1. Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor ... Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#2. Walk away. Leave her be.
And let this opportunity pass?
Relinquish the chance to be alone with her while she admired his art?
The temptation was too much to resist.
Lisa Carlisle
#3. This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?
Myles Horton
#4. I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them.
Steve Goodier
#5. ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
Ambrose Bierce
#6. Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it;
behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.
Richard M. Nixon
#10. Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once.
Malorie Blackman
#11. Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.
Mardy Grothe
#12. Temptation is an opportunity to please God and shame the devil.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe.
Jack McDevitt
#14. Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.
Lois Greiman
#16. Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#17. Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.
Louise Hay
#18. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
#20. Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#22. The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.
Mark Hopkins
#23. Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
John Quincy Adams
#24. There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
Andy Hargreaves
#25. God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.
Henry B. Eyring
#26. People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
Terry Pratchett
#27. Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
Steve Maraboli
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