Backbone Quotes

174 quotes by 156 authors

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence. — Mia Hamm
Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone. — Charlie Brooker
Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were… — Kristin Cashore
I wonâ€™t die like this again. (Zarek) Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow from it. (Thanatos) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it… — Dave Ramsey
The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some… — B.F. Skinner
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural… — Terry Pratchett
The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken. — Lisa Kleypas
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may… — Gore Vidal
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a… — Jodi Picoult
Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the… — David Mitchell
Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had… — Abbi Glines
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and… — Louis L'Amour
The wishbone will never replace the backbone. — Henry Wilson Allen
America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will… — Barack Obama
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a… — Nicole Kidman
The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. — Tommy Douglas

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