Top 100 Temptation Resist Quotes
#1. If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting.
Lois Greiman
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
#5. The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.
Spencer W. Kimball
#6. 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
#7. Temptation is impossible for me to resist ... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
Tom Sizemore
#8. 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
#9. I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
C.D. Payne
#11. 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.
#12. A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence.
Noel DeJesus
#15. The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
#16. Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
Margaret Atwood
#17. Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that 'all beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.' You can resist temptation!
Boyd K. Packer
#18. Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.
John Tillotson
#19. 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
#20. I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
#21. 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
#22. There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
John Quincy Adams
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
Jacqueline Carey
#27. The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Jane Byrne
#28. There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
John Lubbock
#29. We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.
Giorgio Napolitano
#30. I couldn't resist the temptation to tease Pyle - it is, after all, the weapon of weakness and I was weak.
Graham Greene
#31. 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
#32. Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
Franklin P. Jones
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Plenty of directors can milk a scene; there aren't many who can resist the temptation.
Jackson Burgess
#36. I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.
John Ciardi
#42. Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon
Steven D. Levitt
#43. We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.
Ron Paul
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. ...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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
Oscar Wilde
#54. 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
#56. Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
Warren Buffett
#57. 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
#58. We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.
Niall Ferguson
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
Stanley Schmidt
#64. Every time you resist temptation you are winning for your children.
Joel Osteen
#65. 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
#66. It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.
David Platt
#67. 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
#68. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
Jeanette Winterson
#69. Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation.
John Eldredge
#70. By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
Roger Mahony
#71. 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
#72. Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Don Herold
#73. Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.
Alphonsus Liguori
#74. What you had left before I saw you, of course I do not know; but I counsel you to resist firmly every temptation which would incline you to look back: pursue your present career steadily, for some months at least
Charlotte Bronte
#75. [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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
Emmeline B. Wells
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde
#85. What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
Calvin Coolidge
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
Monica Johnson
#96. 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
#97. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you have power and you can resist temptation!
Joyce Meyer
#98. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it ... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
#99. 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
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