Francis Chan Quotes

My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.

Francis Chan

• Struggle
• Pride
• Stress
• Circumstances
• Blame
• Immaturity

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• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God
  • Pride

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • Important
  • Exercise

• Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Disaster

• Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Getting Older

• Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Art
  • Feeling

• The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Mind
  • True

• What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Struggle

• There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

  

  Don McCullin
  • War
  • Hope
  • Pride

• Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Good
  • Struggle

• I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • God
  • Pride

• State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Up
  • Education
  • Lost

• I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.

  

  Lily James
  • Struggle

• Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • Done
  • Why
  • Pride

• If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Time
  • Struggle

• My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Smart

• I don't know if people consciously get in the way of their own success. In fairness, people have a lot of pride, and they fall back on what they know to be safe and correct. Anybody, including me, struggles with change.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • People
  • Success
  • Fall

• Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.

  

  Molly Parker
  • Character
  • Term

• Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Language
  • Communication
  • Fame

• My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Struggle
  • Pride
  • Stress