Top 100 Quotes About Resistance
#1. There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.
Ahmed Yassin
#2. It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#3. Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
Herman Melville
#5. The mind has the Propensity to Excel along the Path of least resistance thereby ostracising other equally important "concepts" It is this lack of restrictions of the mind that separates our intellectually aptitude
Archibald Gumiro
#6. And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#7. Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don't prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.
Kristin Neff
#8. Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.
Eric Hoffer
#9. My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.
Kenny Loggins
#11. Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.
James Martineau
#13. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
Plutarch
#15. Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.
Ron Rosedale
#16. Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.
Michael Scott
#17. You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.
Gregory Peck
#18. Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
Guy Verhofstadt
#19. Our best hope will never lie in individual survivalism. Nor does it lie in small groups doing their best to prepare for the worst. Our best and only hope is a resistance movement that is willing to face the scale of the horrors, gather our forces, and fight like hell for all we hold dear.
Lierre Keith
#20. No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.
Steven Pressfield
#21. Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
Saki
#22. Poe readied himself. "The Resistance will not be intimidated by you."
"As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.
Alan Dean Foster
#23. If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
Donald Miller
#24. An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.
Ameen Rihani
#25. If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
Richard Rohr
#26. The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#27. When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.
Bonnie Greer
#28. The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#30. Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.
Lao-Tzu
#31. Instead of feeding the memories with resistance, I starved them with acceptance. I denied them the attention they demanded. I refused to give my abuser that kind of power over me. The monsters under my bed would be there by invitation only.
Dennis Randall
#32. Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.
Bryant H. McGill
#33. Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
Steven Pressfield
#34. The professional knows that Resistance is like a telemarketer; if you so much as say hello, you're finished.
Steven Pressfield
#35. The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#37. Not in this lifetime, buddy," I said finally. "Resistance is futile, Kitten." "So is your charm." "We'll see.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#38. There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.
Charles James Fox
#39. Fear, boredom, and resistance
they all go to make
what we call stupid children.
John Holt
#40. True nonresistance is the one true resistance to evil. It kills and finally destroys the evil sentiment.
Leo Tolstoy
#41. The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#43. Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves.
Henry Cloud
#44. Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.
Sara Sheridan
#45. I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#46. 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.
Amira Hass
#47. The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.
Brian Tracy
#48. It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian McEwan
#49. There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists.
Sherman Austin
#50. I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.
Bertrand Russell
#51. Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.
Isaac Newton
#52. The only thing which can be regarded as properly tragic is resistance, resistance on the part of a man to whatever it is that oppresses him.
Isaiah Berlin
#53. The truth is, that MOST of the time MOST of us take the road MOST traveled, the path of least resistance and MOST comfortable.
Jayce O'Neal
#54. The Iraqi government had an army with 350,000 soldiers on which it had spent $41.6 billion in the three years since 2011. But this force melted away without significant resistance. Discarded uniforms and equipment were found strewn along the roads leading
Patrick Cockburn
#55. I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about
Ian Kershaw
#56. An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
Franz Grillparzer
#57. But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
Wayne White
#58. Transformation is the result of big shifts in perceptions and responses. The process can be uncomfortable, since the mind is reluctant to notice itself, to take responsibility for its stories, and to change. When the mind is in acute resistance, the emotional body pays a price.
Miguel Ruiz
#59. Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
#60. The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
Steven Pressfield
#61. If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.
Susan Del Gatto
#62. As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.
Steven Pressfield
#63. I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.
Thom Yorke
#64. There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.
David O. McKay
#65. A senior Israeli intelligence officer explained that the IDF attacked "both aspects of Hamas - its resistance or military wing and its dawa, or social wing," the latter a euphemism for the civilian society.
Noam Chomsky
#66. 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.
Thomas Sowell
#67. If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.
Norman Mailer
#68. Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
Vernon Howard
#69. We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.
Shirin Ebadi
#70. Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.
John Adams
#71. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
Regina Brett
#72. I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.
Dean Spade
#73. Ashe was typical of that stratum of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where there was softness, he would advance; where he found resistance, retreat.
John Le Carre
#74. The attitude of resistance is one of weakness inasmuch as it only faces an enemy. It has its back to all that is truly attractive.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment.
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.
Josh Waitzkin
#77. Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)
Donald Rothberg
#78. Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.
Tim Allen
#79. I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.
Tom Conti
#80. Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley Amis
#81. For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.
Jerry Seinfeld
#82. Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
William Hazlitt
#83. You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.
Tara West
#84. I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ... la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la ...
Paul Simon
#85. despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown.
Nick Vujicic
#86. The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
Immanuel Kant
#87. What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun
which is to say, preserving the human spirit.
Tom Robbins
#88. Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them.
Rebecca Solnit
#89. Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and shift out of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, addictions, infertility, and insecurity at a cellular level.
Jenna Morasca
#90. The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#91. When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.
Pema Chodron
#92. As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#93. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
#94. Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive
Mary Pipher
#95. I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That's 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.
Ric Flair
#96. Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not, as is asserted, flight from a wretched reality, but from the last remaining thought of resistance.
Theodor W. Adorno
#97. It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.
Deepak Chopra
#98. Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.
Eckhart Tolle
#99. The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
Bob Barr
#100. My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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