Resisting Temptation Quotes:

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Motivational, Strong, Lying, Power And Control, Will Power

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

- Frederick William Faber

topic: Temptation, Victory, Resistance, Resisting Temptation, Temptation Life

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Temptation, Gains, Resisting Temptation, Resisting

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

- William Penn

source: William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.840

topic: Prayer, Evil, Temptation, Resisting Temptation, Temptation Life

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

- James Branch Cabell

source: James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com

topic: Memories, History, Temptation, Resisting Temptation, Temptation Life

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Yield, Temptation, Way, Resisting Temptation, Hedonist

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, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Law, Yield, Sick, Monstrous, Dorian Grey

For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

- Kelly McGonigal

source: Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin

topic: Heart, Mean, Night, One Night, Temptress

A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

- Karl G. Maeser

topic: Life, Blow, Wind, Cork, Resisting Temptation

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Humorous, Profound, Temptation, Resisting Temptation

The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Heaven, Temptation, Wish, Resisting Temptation

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

- Lysa TerKeurst

source: Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.104, Thomas Nelson

topic: Heart, Temptation, Empowerment, Resisting Temptation

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

- Don Herold

source: Don Herold (1925). “Bigger & better”

topic: Temptation, Resisting Temptation

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

- Charlotte Dacre

topic: Motivational, Mind, Wish, Power And Control, Discipline And Self Control

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

- Mae West

source: My Little Chickadee (motion picture) (1940) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Wilde 25; Wilde 53

topic: Motivational, Tattoo, Sexy, Power And Control, Resisting Temptation

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

- Horace Mann

source: Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.70

topic: Men, Temptation, Temptation Life, Resisting Temptation

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

- Laozi

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Determination, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Bible, Submission To God, Temptation, Spiritual Warfare, Prowling

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

- Paul the Apostle

topic: Fall, Men, Roots, Money Is The Root Of All Evil, Snares

Man shall not live by bread alone.

- Matthew McConaughey

topic: Bible, Jesus, Food, Jesus Inspirational, St Matthew

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

- F. H. Bradley

source: "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.

topic: Struggle, Blow, Yield, Resisting Temptation, Resisting

I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any ability to control. That is contrary to the Plan of Salvation, and it is contrary to the justice and mercy of God. It's contrary to the whole teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which expresses the truth that by or through the power and mercy of Jesus Christ we will have the strength to do all things. That includes resisting temptation. That includes dealing with things that we're born with, including disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities.

- Dallin H. Oaks

source: Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

topic: Jesus, Teaching, Destiny, Justice And Mercy, Disfigurement

I can resist everything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Witty, Good Life, Irish Beer, Wittiest

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

- Vicesimus Knox

source: In Mary Wollstonecraft 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 7

topic: Ignorance, Justice, Temptation, Resisting Temptation