Quotes About Avoiding Temptation

#1. It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Odell Shepard

#2. If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Plutarch

#3. You'll lie again, you'll do it again. Friends, not friends, friends, not friends, I'm on your dime, I'm on your time, and I don't exist where there is a YOU.

Coco J. Ginger

#4. They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

Pope Francis

#5. I gave it a shot, Lex. I gave you your space. I let you be happy. That's what you said you wanted." He gripped her hand a little harder. "How did that work? Are you happy? Are you happy without me?

K.A. Linde

#6. The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.

Marcelo Garcia

#7. Rather than trying to trick ourselves, we can teach ourselves, avoiding temptation until the act of avoidance itself becomes habitual and automatic. III.

Sheena Iyengar

#8. Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Joey Adams

#9. Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#10. One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn't matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.

Miranda Kerr

#12. Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

Retief Goosen

#13. One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

Stendhal

#14. I do not often laugh, sir," answered the unknown. "As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please.

Alexandre Dumas

#15. Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don't want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.

Audrey Hepburn

#16. Avoiding temptation is much easier than resisting it.

Elle Meyer

#17. Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

James Pearse Connelly

#18. Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

Edward Hirsch