There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
David McCullough

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Jim Sensenbrenner

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
Marvin Olasky

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Thomas Kempis

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
Smokey Robinson

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Franklin P. Jones

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
Rowan Williams

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning Hamilton

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Don Herold

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Anthony Hope