Fierce Quotes
519 quotes by 436 authors
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The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but…
— Marion Meade
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Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always…
— Sam Keen
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All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind…
— Mark Lawrence
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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
— Raymond Carver
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Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own…
— Sharon Salzberg
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No one is going to feel sorry for you, so you have to go out there and be fierce,
— Gabby Douglas
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Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.
— Dean Spade
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Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that…
— Bob Proctor
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We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate…
— Kavita Ramdas
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You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um,…
— Tori Amos
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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life.…
— Oprah Winfrey
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I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes…
— Ina May Gaskin
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That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of God, who also…
— Stasi Eldredge
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As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they…
— Frank Pittman
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
— John Darnielle
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Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may…
— Issan Dorsey
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Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.
— Jodi Sweetin
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That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one…
— Ted Simon
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