Quotes About Resistance

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

Only dead fish follow the stream.

You know you've been playing too much Nethack when you refer to coffee as a potion of sleep resistance.

Los superjefes entienden que concentrarse principalmente en lo que podría obstaculizar el cambio impide que un equipo o empresa intente algo nuevo.

The Unconvincibles are the people who are not amenable to reason of any sort. Their minds are not only closed, but bolted and hermetically sealed. In most cases , their beliefs congealed at an early age; by the time they left their teens, they were encased in a rigid framework of thought and feeling, which no evidence or argument can penetrate.

Like all persecuted minority groups, they strike back by forming cabals, by "taking over" certain spheres of activity (in the arts, for instance), and by purposely provocative behavior.

It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.

No one knows the opposition to ones salvation.

War upon rebellion was messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.