Resist Quotes
889 Resist quotes by 698 unique authors
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
— Socrates
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When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.
— Gerald Jampolsky
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Never resist a generous impulse.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed…
— Unknown Author
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Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?…
— Jack Heffron
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written…
— Neil Diamond
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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest…
— John Welwood
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
— Alan Paton
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When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that…
— Gerald Jampolsky
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning,…
— Frances O'Grady
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To turn to the Lord and to trust him through revelation will help any individual, at any time, in any part of the world, understand…
— Charles A. Didier
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More thinking is required, and we should all exercise our God-given right to think and be unafraid to express our opinions, with proper respect for…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed…
— Jack White
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The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want…
— Errico Malatesta
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome…
— Twyla Tharp
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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
— Warren Buffett
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We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black…
— June Jordan
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The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we…
— Howard Lyman
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The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and…
— Judy Chu
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If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the…
— Nikola Tesla
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In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we…
— Michael Faraday
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But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.
— Al Sharpton
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