Quotes About Resistance

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn't.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

They don't want you to win.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

God won't give the devil the pleasure of receiving a priest.

If they do not bring peace, we shall give them death.

Ah!, caballero —respondió Caderousse—, no se puede consolar al que no quiere ser consolado, y

Two methods of self-destruction were at his disposal. He could hang himself with his handkerchief to the window bars, or refuse food and die of starvation. But the first was repugnant to him. Dantes had always entertained the greatest horror of pirates, who are hung up to the yard-arm; he would not die by what seemed an infamous death.

He had a strong conviction that no government could be ordained that could resist these internal forces, when, they are directed to its destruction by bad men, or unreasoning mobs, and many then believed, as some yet believe, that our government is unequal to such pressure, when the assault is thoroughly desperate.

At each instant citizens fall under the control of the public administration; they are brought insensibly and almost without their knowing it to sacrifice new parts of their individual independence to it every day, and the same men who from time to time overturn a throne and ride roughshod over kings bend more and more without resistance to the slightest will of a clerk.