“ Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. ”
- Robert Conklin- Copy
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“ In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. ”
- Benjamin Netanyahu- Copy
- 37
“ Be not discouraged. There is a future for you.... The resistance encountered now predicates hope.... Only as we rise... do we encounter opposition. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
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“ There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar — net of our senses. ”
- Diane Ackerman- Copy
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“ Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. ”
- Will Durst- Copy
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“ What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun — which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ”
- Tom Robbins- Copy
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“ Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic… ”
- Joseph Anderson- Copy
- 1K
“ To learn, a person must want to change, to be better, to do differently, and this resistance does not occur without resistance. Resistance may be slight, or it may be great, and it may take a variable number of overt and covert forms. ”
- Lloyd Allen Cook- Copy
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“ To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ”
- Sun tzu- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 1K
“ The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
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“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 255
“ As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance… But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere. ”
- Madeleine K. Albright- Copy
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“ At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 311
“ Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. ”
- Frederick W. Faber- Copy
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“ For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. ”
- George Linnaeus Banks- Copy
- 755
“ Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ”
- Sun tzu- Copy
- 780
“ I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. ”
- Claude M. Bristol- Copy
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