Quotes About Resistance

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

Get the hell out of my way!

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.