Quotes About Resistance

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.

Whatever little we have gained, we have gained by agitation, while we have uniformly lost by moderation.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, - never! never! never!

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done ..., whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

He growled at morning, noon, and night, And trouble sought to borrow; Although today the sky was bright, He knew t'would storm tomorrow; A thought of joy he could not stand, And struggled to resist it; Though sunshine dappled all the land This sorry pessimist it.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.