Defensive Quotes

232 Defensive quotes by 209 unique authors

Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the… — Unknown Author
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the… — Gene Tunney
I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That… — Rebecca Lobo
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned… — Peter Matthiessen
A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes… — Diane Dreher
We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive. — Beth Moore
Rule Number One is this: If youâ€™re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if… — Gay Hendricks
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds… — Dale Carnegie
You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of… — Marianne Williamson
Whether he gets hit early or in the middle or late, he gets in his seven innings it seems like every time. There are also… — Paul Konerko
The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus. — Dean Acheson
You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that… — Curtis LeMay
My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense. — Nonito Donaire
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really? — Bob Dylan
When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along… — David Bronstein
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about. — Timothy Keller
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to… — C.S. Lewis
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. — Douglas MacArthur

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