Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. Votes: 6
Denis WaitleyThe time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right! Votes: 4
William ShakespeareYou don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. Votes: 4
Jodi PicoultSpite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise. Votes: 3
George FarquharThe courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Votes: 2
Paul TillichI love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. Votes: 2
Tahar Ben JellounEverything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! Votes: 0
Lawrence DurrellAmerican girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can. Votes: 0
James ThurberCommon sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeCourage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear. Votes: 0
James Neil HollingworthI'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryDemocritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfHope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. Votes: 0
Jim WallisIn spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian. Votes: 0
Vikram SethFaith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences. Votes: 0
Adrian RogersIn spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method. Votes: 0
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st BaronetThe affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. Votes: 0
Paul TillichMan starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranSometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it. Votes: 0
Lois GreimanDo we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend? Votes: 0
Richelle E. GoodrichIt is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. Votes: 0
Paul KleeIn order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated. Votes: 0
Mustafa Kemal AtaturkIn spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before. Votes: 0
Christian de DuveThe patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonWe tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss. Votes: 0
Michel QuoistRich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them. Votes: 0
T. Harv EkerIf it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, donât do it. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiShe loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love. Votes: 0
William FaulknerFaith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences. Votes: 0
Clarence JordanKeep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed. Votes: 0
Dhirubhai AmbaniI'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler. Votes: 0
Miriam MargolyesSleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceThere is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. Votes: 0
Lawrence FerlinghettiAn intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. Votes: 0
William Makepeace ThackerayIn spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterIn spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. Votes: 0
George EliotNonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyYet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesCourage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. Votes: 0
M. Scott PeckThe courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on. Votes: 0
George S. PattonFather, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. Votes: 0
William Allan...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits. Votes: 0
John KeatsWe are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government. Votes: 0
Buenaventura DurrutiIn the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them. Votes: 0
Otis WilliamsMan does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Votes: 0
Stanislaw LemSuppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. Votes: 0
Dallas WillardI loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years. Votes: 0
John Henry NewmanLife becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them. Votes: 0
Joni Eareckson TadaIf the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death. Votes: 0
Paul RicoeurThis is what happens when you don't let gays marry; they start designing clothes out of spite. Votes: 0
Jon StewartEvery step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party. Votes: 0
Victor HugoHumor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudIf you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it. Votes: 0
Andrew BernsteinIf you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it. Votes: 0
Andrew J. BernsteinJazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. Votes: 0
Johnny GriffinIn spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women. Votes: 0
Bill CosbyCourage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear. Votes: 0
James L. Farmer, Jr.Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite. Votes: 0
Morgan BrittanyBeing fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear. Votes: 0
Robin ParrishOh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything. Votes: 0
Henrik IbsenIn spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning. Votes: 0
Andy RooneyKeep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. Votes: 0
Louis AuchinclossFearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. Votes: 0
Taylor SwiftIt will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. Votes: 0
Ivy Compton-BurnettThose who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. Votes: 0
John DrydenFor in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. Votes: 0
Janet FrameIt's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible. Votes: 0
Henrik IbsenIn spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth. Votes: 0
Hugh MacDiarmidIn spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy. Votes: 0
Cameron DokeyThis day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. Votes: 0
Adam ZagajewskiMan does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Votes: 0
Ralph BellamyI was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings. Votes: 0
George W. BushCourage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it. Votes: 0
Scott TurowIn spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail. Votes: 0
Anne FontaineIf we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs. Votes: 0
Stephen Richards[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her. Votes: 0
Bette Midler"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way. Votes: 0
Paul WasherMuch of your success in life is determined by how you choose to act in spite of how you feel. Votes: 0
Andy AndrewsAny success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it. Votes: 0
Wayne DyerGod's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything. Votes: 0
R. A. TorreySome men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardWe are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are. Votes: 0
Victor HugoIt will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. Votes: 0
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