Quotes About Tempted

#1. He felt no relief. He felt no closure. He knew then he would have to leave Poughkeepsie. He'd go very far away so he wouldn't be tempted to come back.

Debra Anastasia

#2. He'd spent so much time in the penalty box for fighting last season, he'd been tempted to hang a picture and maybe set up a lava lamp, it had felt so much like home

Rachel Gibson

#3. What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Stephen Mitchell

#4. I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to the tempted, "Flee temptation." The Bible challenges us to look upward, not inward, for counsel at moments of crisis.

Philip Yancey

#5. The same sins that tempted past generations remain perennial temptations today.

Anonymous

#6. Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.

Ted Danson

#8. When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Andy Stanley

#9. Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

John Muir

#10. Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.

Thomas A Kempis

#11. It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven.

Thomas Hardy

#12. Any time in life you're tempted to think, 'Should I do this OR that?' instead, ask yourself, 'Is there a way I can do this AND that?

Chip Heath

#13. We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.

Lance Armstrong

#14. Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love
a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.

Tessa Dare

#15. God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

Rick Warren

#16. It is extraordinary Monsieur Benoit, but everytime I think of your triple character as a landlord, a bootmaker, and a friend, I am tempted to believe in the Trinity.

Henri Murger

#17. If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

Sara Sheridan

#18. Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

Matthew Pearl

#19. Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still.

Nana Awere Damoah

#20. Every time I am tempted to buy some dopey thing, I hear my late father's voice: 'Do you really need that?' He was big on saving money and buying as much security as possible. He also encouraged charitable giving. So, I am responsible with currency.

Bill O'Reilly

#21. When we're tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.

Brad Wilcox

#22. Why be tempted by one man's seduction, when you can be loved by three?

Houston Havens

#23. Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Deepak Chopra

#24. When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it's because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

Lysa TerKeurst

#25. Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a minibar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.

Mike Huckabee

#26. Part of me wanted to run away from him screaming, Fire! A more reckless part was tempted to see how close I could get without ... combusting.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#27. Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

Marianne Williamson

#28. Perhaps it was a blessing that he couldn't cross paths with himself, lest he be tempted to shoot himself before making the deal with Ironwood.

Alexandra Bracken

#29. It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#30. It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

Lee Iacocca

#31. Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.'
That is true,' said Mma Potokwane sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#32. Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness
by making the ultimate escape from life.
No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Dag Hammarskjold

#33. When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener ... where it is watered.

Ezra Taft Benson

#34. Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.

Francois Mitterrand

#35. We were tempted to have T-shirts made that said on the front: "We May Not Be Hip Enough To Drink Here, But We Are Rich Enough To Live Here," and on the back in larger letters: "Fuck Off Back To Clapham." Like giving the finger to the bridge-and-tunnel crowd.

Simon Majumdar

#36. Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.

Sylvia Plath

#37. Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

John Paul Caponigro

#38. When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

George Washington

#39. The prescription for perplexed people who are tempted to be pessimistic is to rejoice, do good, and recognize that our ability to work, eat, and drink is the gift of God.

J. Grant Howard

#40. Stephen rubbed at his face. Look, I have three choices. I never see you again so I'm not tempted; I give in to temptation and milk you for power until I'm a raging madman; or I control myself. I don't like the first two options.

K.J. Charles

#41. There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

David Chase

#42. I've never been tempted to sleep with the same woman every night myself. Let alone reproduce myself in a leaky, noisy miniature human.

Eloisa James

#43. The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.

John Gardner

#44. Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

Mary Stewart

#45. The next time you're tempted to overuse your powers, remember this, I will bring you back by any means necessary, so if you value your humanity, don't do that again.

Jeaniene Frost

#46. Satan never tempted Jesus with evil; Satan tempted Jesus with good. Satan enticed Jesus to go ahead and do good and to bring it about by the most direct way possible.

Brian Zahnd

#47. Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating - real in a generation of triflers - true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

William Morley Punshon

#48. I'm not tempted by things I've decided are off-limits, but once I've started something, I have trouble stopping. If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.

Gretchen Rubin

#49. Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

Stefan Zweig

#50. Once we acknowledge that God is the main character, only then can we even begin to get to that place where we're no longer tempted to let our emotions drive us. We

Craig Groeschel

#51. 15For we do not have a high priest g who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been d tempted as we are, h yet without sin. 16 i Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Anonymous

#52. Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

Irving Babbitt

#53. There are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Agatha Christie

#54. The truth: you have what you need. Watch out for excuses. Whenever you're tempted to whine about what you don't have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything He wants you to do.

Craig Groeschel

#55. Alex's gaze bore her through like an icicle. He was tempted to shove her back into the ornate carriage and tell the driver to head straight for London. Or a far hotter place.

Lisa Kleypas

#56. No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Eugene McCarthy

#57. Most people hates politicians and politics itself:but always vote during election to elect a president. I am always tempted to ask who a politician is ?

Aboagye Williamson De-graft

#58. No matter how much you're tempted or provoked to speak. Never speak where you don't need to.

Sarvesh Jain

#59. We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

John Ortberg

#60. You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .

Leonard Cohen

#61. In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

Evelyn Underhill

#62. When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

Tamora Pierce

#63. James wrote, "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone

Erwin W. Lutzer

#64. Obinze's burger was served in four pieces, arranged in a large martini glass. When Georgina's order arrived, a pile of red raw beef, an egg sunnily splayed on top of it, Obinze tried not to look at it as he ate, otherwise he might be tempted to vomit.

Anonymous

#65. You guys dated, didn't you?"
"Are you insane? Not even if the continuation of our kind depended on it would I be tempted to do something so awful.

Rachel Morgan

#66. The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

Charles Spurgeon

#67. Cheaters are cowards that are tempted to chase the fantasy of what could be ... instead of courageously addressing their own self-destructive behavior and cultivating what is.

Steve Maraboli

#68. Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not.

Alexander McCall Smith

#69. Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

William Thoms

#70. God watches over every temptation and trial that you will ever face in your life and He will never "allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able.

Robert B. Somerville

#71. 13No temptation[27] has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted[28] beyond what you can bear.

Anonymous

#72. You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,

Elias Hicks

#73. If tempted by something that feels "altruistic," examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

Robert A. Heinlein

#74. One is almost tempted to say ... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most convenient fiction which, as we have seen, is convenient both to experimental and theoretical chemists.

Charles Coulson

#75. I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

Matt Kuchar

#76. There are quite a few things that the devil could tempt me with ... I could be tempted by youth if I was allowed to hold on to all the wisdom that I've gotten. In everything, not just sports. In life. In acting. I'd be tempted by youth only so I could continue doing it a little longer.

George Clooney

#77. History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

A.J.P. Taylor

#78. Since the security benefits of hegemony are enormous" in an anarchic system in which there is no world hegemon, "powerful states will invariably be tempted to emulate the United States and try to dominate their region of the world."15

Robert D. Kaplan

#79. Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

Daniel H. Pink

#80. You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.

Michael Ondaatje

#81. Children in the kingdom of God hold onto possessions loosely. They know that the King is powerful and generous, and they know that what they have is on loan anyway. They are quick to help those in need. The rich, on the other hand, are sorely tempted to trust in their riches.

New Growth Press

#82. Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?'
'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted - oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.

D.H. Lawrence

#83. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

Og Mandino

#84. If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James Anthony Froude

#85. I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#86. For a moment, Nico felt like a little kid again. He was tempted to blurt out, That's so cool! Even before he got into Mythomagic, he'd been obsessed with pirates. Probably that was one reason he'd been so smitten with Percy, a son of the sea god.

Rick Riordan

#87. They crashed into Brooke's stream at the bottom, helped each other up, and stumbled deeper into the woods. Behind them, Leo heard the Maenads laughing and shouting, urging Leo to come back so they could rip him to shreds. For some reason, Leo wasn't tempted.

Rick Riordan

#88. I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

Harold Town

#89. I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

Sally Phillips

#90. The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith: alas, discretion prevailed.

Arthur C. Clarke

#91. If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

Nancy Duarte

#92. Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.

Mike McCue

#93. Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

James Fenton

#94. I'm getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you'd find on those shelves.

Mark Frost

#95. Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.

Richard Rolle

#96. So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.

Tracy Chapman

#97. My pulse pounded in my ears, heat smoldering deep in my belly. I'd never been so tempted. This is a dangerous game.

Lisa Kessler

#98. Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy ... But our task is the opposite of distraction ... how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.

Henri Nouwen

#99. One of the terrible calamities of the wicked is that they are tempted above that which they are able to bear; but one of the most blessed promises to a saint is that he shall not be so tempted, but that he shall be guarded, and when the pressure would be too strong it shall be held back.

A.B. Simpson

#100. I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.

Brenda Perlin