Quotes about Resisting

Resisting is worth doing. Votes: 3

Resisting tyranny is obeying God Votes: 3

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad. Votes: 3

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering, Votes: 3

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic. Votes: 3

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. Votes: 3

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman. Votes: 3

Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job. Votes: 3

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses. Votes: 3

Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life. Votes: 3

Defeat I shall not know. It shall not touch me. I will meet it with true thinking. Resisting it will be my strengthening. But if, perchance, the day shall give to me the bitter cup, it shall sweeten in the drinking. Votes: 3

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice. Votes: 1

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. Votes: 1

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. Votes: 1

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. Votes: 1

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart. Votes: 1

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. Votes: 1

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. Votes: 1

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. Votes: 1

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want. Votes: 1

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. Votes: 1

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations. Votes: 1

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing. Votes: 1

Most people heard about Hamas after Hamas started carrying out terrorist attacks. Hamas started out as an idea. Let's say a noble idea - resisting occupation. Votes: 1

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression. Votes: 1

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. Votes: 1

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. Votes: 1

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination. Votes: 1

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States. Votes: 1

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. Votes: 1

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. Votes: 1

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety. Votes: 1

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society. Votes: 1

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation. Votes: 1

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. Votes: 1

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections. Votes: 1

Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.' Votes: 1

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity Votes: 0

We understand nature by resisting it. Votes: 0

Appreciate life instead of resisting it. Votes: 0

All stress comes from resisting what is. Votes: 0

I was once arrested for resisting arrest. Votes: 0

Enjoying the bouquet while resisting the wine." -Edward Votes: 0

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life. Votes: 0

The era of resisting big government is never over. Votes: 0

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting? Votes: 0

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power. Votes: 0

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing. Votes: 0

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth. Votes: 0

Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it. Votes: 0

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is. Votes: 0

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. Votes: 0

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. Votes: 0

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. Votes: 0

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing. Votes: 0

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live. Votes: 0

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them. Votes: 0

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way. Votes: 0

Just because I'm resisting the wine doesn't mean I can't appreciate the bouquet. Votes: 0

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. Votes: 0

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. Votes: 0

Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well. Votes: 0

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having. Votes: 0

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country. Votes: 0

I'm sorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible." "Strange, men have been resisting me for years. Votes: 0

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. Votes: 0

We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. Votes: 0

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. Votes: 0

Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure. Votes: 0

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. Votes: 0

The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life. Votes: 0

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe. Votes: 0

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting. Votes: 0

You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested. Votes: 0

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods. Votes: 0

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish. Votes: 0

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have. Votes: 0

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere Votes: 0

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering. Votes: 0

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld. Votes: 0

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? Votes: 0

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact. Votes: 0

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity. Votes: 0

It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm. Votes: 0

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life Votes: 0

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest"¦I did a lot of walking in Montgomery. Votes: 0

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies. Votes: 0

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem. Votes: 0

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? Votes: 0

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others. Votes: 0

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference. Votes: 0

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering. Votes: 0

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day. Votes: 0

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance. Votes: 0

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step. Votes: 0

Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning. Votes: 0

The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress. Votes: 0

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment. Votes: 0

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels. Votes: 0

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. Votes: 0

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter. Votes: 0

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement. Votes: 0

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces. Votes: 0

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . . Votes: 0

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else Votes: 0

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive. Votes: 0

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country. Votes: 0

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people. Votes: 0

If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances. Votes: 0

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian. Votes: 0

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously. Votes: 0

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. Votes: 0

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth. Votes: 0

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him. Votes: 0

The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it. Votes: 0

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. Votes: 0

If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached. Votes: 0

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. Votes: 0

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning ... Votes: 0

The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict. Votes: 0

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. Votes: 0

The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed. Votes: 0

Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are. Votes: 0

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. Votes: 0

Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data. Votes: 0

The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification. Votes: 0

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne...And of course, by resisting Hitler, he saved Europe and perhaps the world. Votes: 0

Another wing of the party seems to be putting its hands up. They`re not all resisting and accepting the [Donald]Trump - the fact that he could very well win the nomination. Votes: 0

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves. Votes: 0

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances. Votes: 0

Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you. Votes: 0

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination. Votes: 0

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere. Votes: 0

If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever. Votes: 0

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think "˜My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside? Votes: 0

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well. Votes: 0

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. Votes: 0

How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity. Votes: 0