Spite Quotes

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  A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, Emotions Feelings, Anxiety

  "To My Daughters, With Love (My Neighbor's Son)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Peace, Hate, Thinking

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• Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

  Charles Dickens

  Feelings, Littles, Strange

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster ... Engraved by T. Williams”, p.82

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

  Charles Kingsley

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Hope, Motivation, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Jun 25, 2013

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• Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

  Denis Waitley

  Determination, Wrestling, Giving

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• Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Done, Sake

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.628, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lonely, Anger, Envy

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Anniversary, Boyfriend

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 02, 2015

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't cut off your nose yourself.

  Casey Stengel

  Cutting, Noses, Cutting Off

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

  Michelangelo

  Birthday, Hope, Believe

  Barbara A. Somervill, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2005). “Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter”, p.80, Capstone

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• I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "I Have a Dream". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. August 28, 1963.

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• 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.

  James Whistler

  Two, Three, Four

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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  In spite of everything, I shall rise again

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  "Voices Carry" by Alice Hoffman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

  Kathleen Norris

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Even so, one step from my grave,
  I believe that cruelty, spite,
  The powers of darkness will in time
  Be crushed by the spirit of light.

  Boris Pasternak

  Time, Believe, Light

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Jon Stallworthy, Peter France (1983). “Selected poems”, Lane, Allen

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Friendship, Marriage

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• In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Support, Religion

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