Resists Quotes

86 quotes by 82 authors

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and… — John Calvin
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation… — Alphonsus Liguori
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or… — Albert Camus
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. — Dan Millman
Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender;… — Rajneesh
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. — John Hay
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until… — Johannes Kepler
It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it… — Suzanne Segal
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the… — Pope Paul VI
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.… — Albert Einstein
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. — Ovid
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists… — C.S. Lewis
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step… — William Bridges
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. — Jean Piaget
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the… — Seneca the Younger
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. — Ariel Durant

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