Quotes with resist

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  • Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Horace Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Campbell Brown As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Lord George Byron As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alan Cohen Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Plutarch Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • John Wooden For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Marquis de Sade Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can resist everything except temptation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mae West I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles de Gaulle I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • J.M. Coetzee I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Caitlin Flanagan In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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