Sayings about Temptation
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. ~ Bible
Good habits result from resisting temptation. ~ Traditional Proverb
The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil. ~ Arabian Proverbs
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ~ Traditional Proverb
Idle men tempt the devil; the devil tempts all others. ~ Turkish Proverbs
All temptations are found in either hope or fear. ~ English Proverbs
He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? ~ Bible
God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. ~ Bible
The devil tempts but doesn’t force. ~ Guyanese Proverbs
It is easy to tempt a frog to the river. ~ Serbian Proverbs
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. ~ Bible
Quotations about Temptation
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation. ~ Tom Wilson
You oughtn’t to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. ~ Anthony Hope
The source and cause of all temptation is in the inward desire; that being purified or eliminated, outward objects and extraneous powers are utterly powerless to move the soul to sin or to temptation. ~ James Allen
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall. ~ James Joyce
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil, than in many formal prayers. ~ William Penn
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. ~ Bishop Robert South
Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse. ~ H. L. Mencken
The realization of God’s presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation. ~ Francois de Salignac Fenelon
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely. ~ Franklin P. Jones
For I am that way going to temptation, where prayers cross. ~ William Shakespeare
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin to loving virtue. ~ William Shakespeare
Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. ~ Oscar Wilde
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. ~ Madeleine de Scuderi
Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations. ~ John Tillotson
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. ~ William Shakespeare
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. ~ Henry Louis Mencken
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. ~ Francis H. Bradley
Why resist temptation? There will always be more. ~ Don Herold
Terrible is the temptation to be good. ~ Bertolt Brecht
The Devil’s subtlest temptations are the ones you yield to without even knowing you’ve given in. ~ Glen Duncan
Temptation hath a music for all ears. ~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
To attempt to resist temptation, to abandon our bad habits. ~ Benjamin Waugh
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ~ Thomas ã Kempis
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. ~ Joey Lauren Adams
There’s a lesson in every temptation. ~ Frank Herbert
The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. ~ Korman’s Law
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ~ Thomas Boston
Every man living shall assuredly meet with an hour of temptation, a certain critical hour, which shall more especially try what mettle his heart is made of. ~ Bishop Robert South
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~ Robert Orben
I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross. ~ William Shakespeare
Honest bread is very well–it’s the butter that makes the temptation. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ~ Author Unknown
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ~ Matthew Henry
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it. ~ Honore De Balzac
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. ~ Lane Olinghouse
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses. ~ Franklin P. Jones
Saintliness is also a temptation. ~ Jean Anouilh
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. ~ John Bunyan
We find many things, to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ~ William Hazlitt
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. ~ Frederick W. Faber
We like slipping, but not falling: our real desire is to be tempted enough. ~ Augustus William Hare
I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it. ~ Mae West
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ~ Margaret Oliphant
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. ~ Marguerite de Valois
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Without temptation the soul cannot grow. ~ James Allen
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep. ~ Ivan Panin
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of self-confidence. ~ Francois de Salignac Fenelon
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. ~ James Russell Lowell
If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat. ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
In so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and if he is overcome, you share his guilt. ~ Samuel Johnson
The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation. ~ Augustus William Hare
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. ~ Thomas Merton
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist. ~ Sir John Lubbock
Tempt not a desperate man. ~ William Shakespeare
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ~ Mark Twain
It is one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. ~ William Shakespeare
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ~ Oscar Wilde
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. ~ George Eliot
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust. ~ Honore de Balzac
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it. ~ James Allen
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. ~ E. H. Chapin
Remove the temptation of idleness and cupid’s bow is useless. ~ Ovid
‘Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome. ~ William Penn
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. ~ John Owen
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation. ~ William Penn
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ~ Oscar Wilde
I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flame, and every time I pass that way I always hear my name. ~ Bob Dylan
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. ~ Orlando A. Battista
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man…. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. ~ Horace Mann
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. ~ John Quincy Adams
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
I can resist everything except temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde
Temptation is a desire to engage in short-term urges for enjoyment, that threatens long-term goals. ~ Read More!