Backbone Quotes

• You're my backbone. You're a blessing. You're a piece of my heart. You're the air I breathe. And you're the strongest person I know, and I'm so sorry for having to put you through this and having to put our family through this.

  Kobe Bryant

  Sorry, Heart, Apology

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• To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

  Reba McEntire

  Life, Success, Positivity

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

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• The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

  Mia Hamm

  Success, Determination, Hard Work

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• Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Should Have, Wishbones

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• Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Bullying, Being Bullied, Toughness

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• Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Want, Easy, Settling

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2014

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• For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.

  Dave Ramsey

  Your Future, Grows

  Dave Ramsey (2010). “The Money Answer Book: Quick Answers to Everyday Financial Questions”, p.64, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

  Bear Grylls

  Strong, Ego, Enough

  Bear Grylls (2012). “A Survival Guide for Life”, p.152, Random House

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• A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Bullying, Fear, Play

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• It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Imagination, Brain

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.28, Ravenio Books

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• I have the backbone of an eel.

  Betty White

  Eels

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

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• We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

  Joyce Meyer

  Needs, Wishbones

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• The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Success, Men, Practice

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• If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

  Reba McEntire

  Wish, Want, Succeed

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• My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

  David Cook

  Brother, Oxygen, Parent

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• Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Inspirational, Strength, Encouraging

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• A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.

  Leslie Ludy

  Home, Leader, Crowds

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• The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

  Henry Wilson Allen

  Inspirational, Work, Safety

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• My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Zero, Support You

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• No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

  Mia Hamm

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

  John Perry Barlow

  Party, Waiting, Moral

  "John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet: Interview with Aaron Davis". Planet J.H. Weekly, July 28, 2005.

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• I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Thinking, Voice

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• There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

  Casey Abrams

  Thinking, Skeletons, Want

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• A drummer is usually like the backbone.

  Brody Dalle

  Drummer

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