Quotes About Resisting Temptation

#1. This freedom from decision making is crucial, because when I have to decide - which often involves resisting temptation or postponing gratification - I tax my self-control.

Gretchen Rubin

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

Franklin P. Jones

#3. What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.

Mae West

#4. The blessings of resisting temptation far outweigh the costs of giving into one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

Lysa TerKeurst

#6. He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't.

He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.

So he wasn't going to now.

Luke Taylor

#7. Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery.

Dan Ariely

#8. 'It's okay. I understand that you're tempted and know you shouldn't grab the apple, and when you did you wanted to drop it. But I'm not good at resisting temptation. I'd rather eat the fucking thing, and enjoy it, even if I end up in hell.'

Barbara Elsborg

#9. Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

Vicesimus Knox

#10. A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

Karl G. Maeser

#11. The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

Anthony Albanese

#12. Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Samuel Johnson

#13. Quite the opposite, Miss Bennet; I have been resisting a temptation almost since my first arrival in Hertfordshire.

Pat Santarsiero

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

Elle Meyer

#15. the day I was getting ready to go and meet Ollie,

Zoe Sugg

#16. We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation,just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.

Tess Gerritsen

#17. The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Bessie Smith

#18. Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it;
behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Burn yourself with love; now enjoy the purity of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#20. I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too."
"I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#21. I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, giving them an appraising squeeze and admiring nod. A moment later, Miss Georgia returned the gesture ...

Jefferson Bass

#22. The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

Alphonsus Liguori

#23. Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor

#24. I see the life with your sight,
O" the love; you're my light.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.

Gary Rohrmayer

#26. But it's easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.

Andrew James Pritchard

#27. Someone isn't your family simply because they contributed to your DNA. Family is how you act.

Lauren Dane

#28. Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

Peter Ustinov

#29. Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Garry Trudeau

#30. When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

Ayrton Senna

#31. I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

Donna Lynn Hope

#32. There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

Eula Biss

#33. If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#34. Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.

Guillermo Del Toro

#35. Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

Marissa Moss

#36. And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

Aldous Huxley

#37. How could we even begin to disarm greed and envy? Perhaps by being much less greedy and envious ourselves; perhaps by resisting the temptation of letting our luxuries become needs; and perhaps by even scrutinising our needs to see if they cannot be simplified and reduced.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#38. God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

William Penn