Resist Quotes
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
Arnold Lobel
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Growth only really comes at the point of resistance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our limits, is a muscle that can be cultivated like any other - incrementally.
Joshua Waitzkin
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
Benjamin Carson
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A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
Chuck Baldwin
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
Albert Camus
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To create is to resist, to resist is to create.
Stephane Hessel
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Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.
Marianne Williamson
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We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
John Calvin
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Benjamin Carson
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It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required to do so.
Benjamin Wittes
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron
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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).
Walt Whitman
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
Arthur Conan Doyle