Catherine the Great Quotes

To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

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

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.