Not In Spite Of But Because Of Quotes

#1. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.

Ronald Reagan

#2. And I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.

Tana French

#3. I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.

Nando Parrado

#4. When I have you, sweet boy, it will be because you want me to. Not against your better judgment, not in spite of my surname, and definitely not to annoy your aunt."
Stephen went red, but his voice was defiant. "Well, what was that, then?"
Crane shrugged. "You seemed tense.

K.J. Charles

#5. That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Dagobert D. Runes

#6. Out of the seething crowd, out of the light and the darkness, came Blossom Rosedale, the one and only Happy Monster, which was a name that she had given herself, not because she loathed the way she looked but because she was truly happy in spite of all her suffering.

Dean Koontz

#7. The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

Otis Williams

#8. I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Anne Lamott

#9. True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#10. The bullfight is a Spanish institution; it has not existed because of the foreigners and tourists, but always in spite of them and any step to modify it to secure their approval, which it will never have, is a step towards its complete suppression.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids.

Sabrina Vourvoulias

#12. Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

Margaret Deland

#13. She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

William Faulkner

#14. From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not help but conclude that evil acts committed by religious people are committed not because of their religion, but in spite of it.

Derek R. Audette

#15. The cathedral as a whole is awesome and stirring in spite, and possibly because, of the fact that we have no idea who built it. When we walk through it, we are communing not with individual stone carvers but with an entire culture.

Neal Stephenson

#16. Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#17. I could tell Marco was a woman-hater, because in spite of all the models and TV starlets in the room that night he paid attention to nobody but me. Not out of kindness or even curiosity, but because I'd happened to be dealt to him, like a playing card in a pack of identical cards.

Sylvia Plath

#18. I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Lucian Freud

#19. The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations

Michael K. Williams

#20. Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

Royal Robbins

#21. "But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.

Paul Washer

#22. So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#23. If only everything were like that. It's not easy to do: owning and accepting the pain of our past, the heartbreak, our misgivings, and using them for good. Make our lives better not in spite of it all...but because of it.

J.B. Salsbury

#24. It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

Jon Krakauer

#25. Something good for the world can come from you, not just in spite of your differences, but because of them.

Heidi Priebe

#26. I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and
difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Richard Paul Evans

#27. The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

Walter Kaufmann

#28. You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.

Sudhir Kakar

#29. Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Dallas Willard

#30. He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.

Chris Matthews

#31. But remember this: you're strong because of your people - not in spite of them.

Daniel Black