Resisting Quotes

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

We understand nature by resisting it.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.

The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

Appreciate life instead of resisting it.

We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat after me: No, no for the occupier.

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

Another wing of the party seems to be putting its hands up. They're not all resisting and accepting the [Donald] Trump - the fact that he could very well win the nomination.

If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.

Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.

You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.