Resistance Quotes

Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

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.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.

Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.

The line of least resistance is to most people the lifeline.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.