Quotes About Overcoming Temptations

#1. Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

Alphonsus Liguori

#2. Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#3. It is desirable to avoid trivial and evil company altogether - unless one can assert oneself fully, and thus make the other doubt his own position.

Erich Fromm

#4. And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.

Jandy Nelson

#5. The thoughts that you think define your life that you live. So have good thoughts to have a great life.

Debasish Mridha

#6. I told you, I don't like to share."

That made her grin. "I don't either. That part was never an act."

~Trance/Rik

Sydney Croft

#7. I tried but I can't admire or respect actors. How can a person be so much in love with just looking good? How much emptiness must an actor have to keep looking at himself/herself in the mirror and put on make-up to come in front of the camera?

Avijeet Das

#8. In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

Alberto Fujimori

#9. In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David.

Charles R. Swindoll

#10. The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before ...

Frederic Morton

#11. I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.

Amy Yasbeck

#12. When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations

Sunday Adelaja

#13. [A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Thomas Jefferson