Temptation Quotes

Here are some temptation quotes.

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

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
~Anonymous

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

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~T. S. Eliot

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~Benjamin Franklin

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~James Branch Cabell

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
~ Robert Orben

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
~W N Taylor

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
~Thomas Jefferson

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
~Lane Olinghouse

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
~Oscar Wilde

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

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.
~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
~Margaret Oliphant

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
~Mark Twain

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
~Bible, Matthew 26:41

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
~Eduardo Galeano

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
~H. L. Mencken