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  • 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.

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

    The Apple Cart (1930) interlude
  • 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.

    Yield   Law   Sick  
    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

    Struggle   Blow   Yield  
    "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.
  • Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

  • Man shall not live by bread alone.

    Bible   Jesus   Food  
  • 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 (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.104, Thomas Nelson
  • There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

    James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com
  • God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

    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
  • Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Life   Blow   Wind  
  • We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America
  • 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.

    Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
  • I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

    My Little Chickadee (motion picture) (1940) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Wilde 25; Wilde 53
  • Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

    Don Herold (1925). “Bigger & better”
  • Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

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

  • Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  • He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

    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
  • I can resist everything except temptation.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  
    Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25
  • The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

    Yield   Temptation   Way  
    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 53
  • 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.

    Fall   Men   Roots  
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