Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
—Robert Orben
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
—Walter Bagehot
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
—H. L. Mencken
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and religion. But it creates a great temptation.
—Thomas Merton
Stop thinking this is all there is.… Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral.… Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel.… Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious… there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable.
—Mark Morford
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
—Robert A. Heinlein
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
—Mae West
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
—Ancient Proverb
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
—Bible
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
—George Bernard Shaw
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
—Lane Olinghouse
I can resist anything but temptation.
—Oscar Wilde
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
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
—Robert Browning
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
—T. S. Eliot