30+ Temptation Quotes

Temptation is always there to provoke and trigger us doing the unjust. Temptation is widely present in history and human behavior. This is a collection of temptation quotes and sayings.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. - William Shakespeare

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

The devil tempts but doesn't force. - Guyanese Proverbs

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. - Orlando A. Battista

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there. - Andy Grammer

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers. - Chinese Proverbs

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle. - Charles H. Spurgeon

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - William Butler Yeats

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general. - Kevin Jonas

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. - Thomas Merton

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. - Steve Maraboli

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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

Temptation to behave is terrible. - Bertolt Brecht

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. - Thomas Brooks

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence. - Francois Fenelon

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values and witnesses. - Franklin P. Jones

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. - Bible

Good habits result from resisting temptation. - Ancient Proverb

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. - H. L. Mencken

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. - Robert A. Heinlein

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. - Jerry Falwell

Virtue is insufficient temptation. - George Bernard Shaw

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. - Ambrose Bierce

Last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. - T. S. Eliot

The Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. - Billy Sunday

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. - Thomas Malthus

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. - Mark Twain

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless. - Ovid

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural. - Park Chan-wook

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