Resist Quotes

889 Resist quotes by 698 unique authors

You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in… — Eckhart Tolle
Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression. — James Robison
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make… — Pope Francis
Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one… — John Steinbeck
You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used… — Warren Buffett
All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it — Walt Whitman
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist — C.S. Lewis
... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of… — Lorenzo Scupoli
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning.… — Os Guinness
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him… — Saint Augustine
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal… — Carl Jung
What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it. — Neale Donald Walsch
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals — Angela Davis
Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to. — Mumia Abu-Jamal
What people resist is not change per se, but loss. — Ronald A. Heifetz
If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake. — Maryrose Wood
Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These,… — William Deresiewicz
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in… — Swami Vivekananda
Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something you feel compelled… — Randy Komisar
At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force them to repress… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering,… — Adyashanti
For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if… — James Patrick Kelly
It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures… — Achmat Dangor
Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. — Tom Sizemore

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