Temptation Quotes

  • 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 stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.
    ~ Toba Beta
  • Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
    ~ John Dryden
  • Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
    ~ Margaret Atwood
  • Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
    ~ Margaret Atwood
  • Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.
    ~ Jane Seabrook
  • The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
    ~ Will Rogers
  • What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
    ~ P. G. Wodehouse
  • The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
    ~ Laurence J. Peter
  • Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
    ~ Steve Maraboli