Fighting Quotes - Page 14

• Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.

  Bernie Siegel

  Religious, Kindness, Religion

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.30, Random House

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• Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  People, Desire, Noble

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.104, Crown Archetype

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• Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Past, Relaxation

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2012

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• No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your husband or wife, you should have a friend - and that friend should be God. Even if your husband or wife makes you unhappy, tell that to God, and not to anyone else. If your neighbor picks a fight with you, go to the meditation room and complain, 'Why did you let him treat me like that? Weren't you with me?' Open your heart and tell God everything. Then it becomes a satsang.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Husband, Real

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• Uncertainty as to our relationship to God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed, and gives way. He can do nothing for God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Running, Men, Giving

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• The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

  Ayn Rand

  Challenges, Ineptitude, Way

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• Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Long, Worry

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• The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

  John Ashcroft

  Rights, Citizens, Politics

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• The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of sectarian competition that has torn so many nations apart, and which our separation of church and state has spared us.

  David Saperstein

  Religious, Ideas, America

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• To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Battle, Allies

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• Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

  Evander Holyfield

  Sadness, Littles, Lasts

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience.

  Evander Holyfield

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Holyfield: 'I just believe that I can'". Interview with Bryan Armen Graham, www.si.com. January 21, 2011.

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• If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.

  John Stark

  War, Sunshine, Giving

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• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Order, Littles

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• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

  Jack Dee

  Hurt, People, Hated

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• One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

  Henry Louis Gates

  White, People, Black

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• Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle, fighting and subduing all negative aspects which hinder or do damage to the course of the revolution. In this light, revolution is ... a mighty symphony of victory over the enemy and over oneself.

  Sukarno

  Struggle, Light, Symphony

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• If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Children, Men, Race

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.146, 谷月社

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• The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

  Joe Frazier

  Men, Way, He Man

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

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• We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

  Jalal Talabani

  Kind, Economic, All Kinds

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• The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, People, Imagination

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• I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

  Larry Kramer

  Artist, Men, Tools

  Larry Kramer (1995). “Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist”, Burns & Oates

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• I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

  Larry Kramer

  New York, Gay, Years

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• Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Thinking, Issues

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