Resistance Quotes
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Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
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Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
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Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
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When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance.
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Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
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So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
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All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.
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Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.
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Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.
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For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps.
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Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
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We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat after me: No, no for the occupier.
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I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.
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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
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Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
