Resisting Quotes

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  Mae West

  Motivational, Tattoo, Sexy

  My Little Chickadee (motion picture) (1940) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Wilde 25; Wilde 53

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• The key to change is to let go of fear.

  Rosanne Cash

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're finished changing, you're finished.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Leadership, Inspiration

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• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Temptation, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,
  some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
  On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.
  The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

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• Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

  Adyashanti

  Sad, Confused, Anger

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• When you are finished changing, you are finished.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Changing The World, Finished

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• The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Temptation, Another Chance, May

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• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Law, Sick

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

  F. H. Bradley

  Struggle, Blow, Yield

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.

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

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Needs, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 13, 2011

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• When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Liars, Lying, People

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• Resist much, obey little.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Army, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The History of a Crime”

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• People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

  Jill Briscoe

  Inspirational, Prayer, Helping Others

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• Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.

  John Hancock

  God, Christian, Men

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• Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.

  Shirin Neshat

  Art, Women, Islamic

  Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.

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• Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Germany, Stopping, Resistance

  Ulrike Meinhof (2011). “Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof”, p.31, Seven Stories Press

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• A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

  Vann R. Newkirk II

  Political, Justice Will Prevail, Resistance

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• Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jul 13, 2011

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