My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
I can resist everything except temptation.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.