In Spite Quotes

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

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

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

The anchor holds in spite of the storm

The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.