Spite Quotes

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

In spite of everything,
I shall rise again

My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.

You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

The anchor holds in spite of the storm

I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

Spite will make a woman do more than love.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.