Resistance Quotes

“Suffering is when we resist the moment.”

— Kamal Ravikant

I'm all for the path of least resistance.

— Cody Lundin

Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.

— Wolfgang Ostwald

Where there is power, there is resistance.

— Michel Foucault

You can't grow strong without resistance.

— Rick Warren

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

— J. B. Pritzker

Faith is the path of least resistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You resist, and it drives me wild.”

— Gena Showalter

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

— Jon Gordon

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

— Eckhart Tolle

“An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain.”

— Frederick Dodson

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

— Steven Pressfield

“I want the next goddamn tyrant who tries to burn the past down to choke on the ash.”

— Elijah Stepanovich

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

— Brian Tracy

“The most radical act is sometimes to refuse to be hurried.”

— Lawrence Nault

“You can break my bone, but you can’t break my spirit without my permission”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

— Kim Hyesoon

Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.

— Paul Watson

“The path of least resistance is a terrible teacher. We can’t afford to shy away from the things that intimidate us. We…

— Ryan Holiday

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind…

— Joseph Fiennes

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.

— Tara Brach

“Asking yourself a question, that’s how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. —REMCO CAMPERT May”

— Kristin Hannah

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

— Martin Heidegger

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains…

— Jon Landau

Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated…

— Marwan Barghouti

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance,…

— Iyanla Vanzant

If I have a jump rope and a resistance band, I can work out anywhere. Even without a jump rope. If you…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

She performed for the Dutch Resistance, not just to raise money but also to entertain people and to take their minds off…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

“Feeling that our demands were moderate, I had assumed that they would be granted with little question; I had believed that the…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps…

— Peter Arnett

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The steps, also brick, were lined on both sides with potted plants. Grandma grew lemongrass, citronella, and catnip in those pots to…

— Rhonda McKnight

It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice…

— Dharma Mittra

The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.…

— H. L. Mencken

When you are praising, when you are appreciating, when you are acknowledging value, when you are looking for positive aspects, when you…

— Esther Hicks

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have…

— Jane Goodall

“He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule…

— Maurice Strong

Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only…

— Mooji