Top 17 Being Defiant Quotes
#1. But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.
Tami Hoag
#2. Being defiant is a two-year-old who doesn't want to go to bed when he's tired. Being resolute is standing one's ground even in the face of opposition. It's a man's virtue, not a toddler's vice.
Minisinoo
#3. Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#4. You can't keep failing. You can't keep being defiant and stubborn. You have to make changes. You need to turn your life around.
Khali Raymond
#5. In this moment, looking into his eyes while he doing these things to me, I feel overwhelmed, scared it'll all be taken away, but most of all the beginning of what I think is freedom. Free to be me. Free to feel human and not my parents puppet.
N.E. Henderson
#7. ( ... ) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all.
Thomas Mann
#8. If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.
Mark Spitz
#9. John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
Harvey Gantt
#10. The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#11. Don't rehearse the activities of your day while you are lying in bed trying to get to sleep. Don't eat after 8 P.M. (If you have to eat something, have soup.) Don't watch the news before you go to sleep. Don't read in bed.
Robin S. Sharma
#12. God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
Rabindranath Tagore
#13. I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.
Jason Statham
#14. I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.
James Patterson
#15. We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
Robert Kennedy
#16. Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.
Tom Lehman
#17. All I know is that I do not know anything
Socrates
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