Resist The Temptation Quotes

#1. [Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.

Ron Paul

#2. By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

Roger Mahony

#3. I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

Peter Mayle

#4. It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

David Platt

#5. You'd get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You'd resist the temptation to dabble. You'd make more good decisions and you'd make more big decisions.

Warren Buffett

#6. Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

Stanley Schmidt

#7. It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste the silence, and smell the solitude, and I wanted it more than I have ever wanted anything before.

Nick Hornby

#8. When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

Jacques Maritain

#9. Wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright...resist the temptation to trifle with other people's feelings.

Elisabeth Elliot

#10. We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.

Niall Ferguson

#11. Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.

Matt Groening

#12. Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Warren Buffett

#13. I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.

Peter Blegvad

#14. I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

Bram Stoker

#15. For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

John Wooden

#16. I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

Margaret Drabble

#17. Few people can resist the temptation to try a little amateur research in a department quite outside their own, if only for the satisfaction of showing how successful they would have been had they only taken it up seriously.

M.R. James

#18. Resist the temptation to stir in mashed bananas, applesauce, or fruit juices, or to buy prepared cereal with fruit (even down the road, after you've introduced these fruits), or your baby will quickly come to accept only sweet foods, rejecting all else.

Anonymous

#19. When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Gerald Jampolsky

#20. Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

Lauren Weisberger

#21. A practical profession is a salvation for a man of my type; an academic career compels a young man to scientific production and only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

Albert Einstein

#22. Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

Alice Walker

#23. Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

Tom Peters

#24. When you are faced with deficiencies instead of strengths and inclinations, this is the strategy you must assume: ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others.

Robert Greene

#25. I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.

Pete Seeger

#26. Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim.

James C. Dobson

#27. If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

Paulo Coelho

#28. There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

John Quincy Adams

#29. When we are aware of the pain, we have to train ourselves to lean into that pain. By leaning into the pain, we resist the temptation to avoid building fig leaves that protect us from the fear we feel regarding who we are. Our feelings are critical to our spiritual development.

Chris McAlister

#30. In roles as leaders and mentors, givers resist the temptation to search for talent first. By recognizing that anyone can be a bloomer, givers focus their attention on motivation. The

Adam M. Grant

#31. Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Margaret Atwood

#32. We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#33. I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

Tony Hoare

#34. But I find myself unable to resist the temptation. The same way you can't resist watching me whenever we're out. So territorial.

Sarah J. Maas

#35. Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

Thomas Nagel

#36. Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence.

Noel DeJesus

#37. The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

Edmund Morgan

#38. ...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation to parade it,...

W. Somerset Maugham

#39. Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff.

Dave Ramsey

#40. I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

Anthony Bourdain

#41. Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

P. J. O'Rourke

#42. We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

Ron Paul

#43. Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon

Steven D. Levitt

#44. We said to him: here is your happiness, here is what you spent your whole youth looking for, here is the girl you saw in all your dreams!
How could anyone, pushed by the shoulders like that, avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, then dismay--how could he resist the temptation to escape?

Alain-Fournier

#45. I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

John Polkinghorne

#46. Plenty of directors can milk a scene; there aren't many who can resist the temptation.

Jackson Burgess

#47. God has created you because he loved you. He loved you so much that he could not resist the temptation to create you. When

Osho

#48. Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?

Ronald Reagan

#49. I couldn't resist the temptation to tease Pyle - it is, after all, the weapon of weakness and I was weak.

Graham Greene

#50. We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

Giorgio Napolitano

#51. The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Jane Byrne

#52. We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Tami Hoag

#53. Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

Wayne W. Dyer

#54. A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.

Tom McCarthy

#55. Philip knew by now that whenever anyone was angry with him his first thought was to say something about his club-foot. His estimate of the human race was determined by the fact that scarcely anyone failed to resist the temptation.

W. Somerset Maugham

#56. We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Napoleon Hill

#57. Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.

Joe Biden

#58. Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

Wayne Dyer

#59. Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#60. I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#61. We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

Jeff Sessions

#62. It shouldn't be very difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to force himself into the pattern of the structured man. One needs only to remember that a groove may be safe--but that, as one wears away at it, the groove becomes first a rut and finally a grave.

J. Paul Getty

#63. 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

#64. In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originially wanted the notion for.

Michael Dummett

#65. To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull up our roots and fly to the mythic kingdom of Elsewhere.

Sam Keen

#66. By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.

Gloria Furman

#67. I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

Thelma Golden

#68. Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

Ian McEwan

#69. Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Brian Tracy

#70. I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Edna O'Brien

#71. Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.

Klaus Schwab

#72. Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

Joseph P. Farrell

#73. Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation.

John Eldredge

#74. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Jeanette Winterson

#75. Zoe's face tilted up toward his presented a temptation he could no more resist than he could prevent the sun from rising.

Barbara Longley

#76. Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.

Ben Harper

#77. Truth is, I don't know what Deacon wants anymore - it's not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I'm the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted effort to resist his temptation, even if sometimes I'd like nothing more than to surround myself with his affection.

Suzanne Young

#78. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it ... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

#79. Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

Monica Johnson

#80. Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life - to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

Boyd K. Packer

#81. I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us
but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat
soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.

Laurence Sterne

#82. Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

Brigham Young

#83. The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Oscar Wilde

#84. It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

Henry David Thoreau

#85. Your level is above the reach of the devil ... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!

Israelmore Ayivor

#86. If I've already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

Tim Tebow

#87. C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

Philip Yancey

#88. The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Thomas Malthus

#89. Temptation is impossible for me to resist ... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

Tom Sizemore

#90. It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

Hyman Rickover

#91. The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

Spencer W. Kimball

#92. The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

Judith Schaechter

#93. We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

Matthew Henry

#94. Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

John Ciardi

#95. What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist?

Anne Bronte

#96. Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

Roy Baumeister

#97. In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden.

Richard Engel

#98. To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist.

Stephen King

#99. I can resist everything but the temptation of you.

Truth Devour

#100. The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Dan Ariely