34 Quotes About Defiance

Don’t let society, parents, or the world tell you that you can’t do something. Defiance is one of the most powerful forces in life. It can be easy to lose confidence in your abilities when you are faced with opposition over your dreams. Many people have found that facing their fears and defying expectations is the best way to achieve their goals Read more

And when they do succeed, they are filled with a sense of accomplishment and happiness in themselves.

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It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up. C.J. Redwine
The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are...
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The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity. Unknown
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to...
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The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. Howard Zinn
Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his...
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Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope. Robert Jordan
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That's not what he meant, " Rachel says again, pink flushing her cheeks." Actually, I meant-" I start to say, but Willow cuts me off." What? It's true. He looks at you like he'd like to dip you in sugar and eat you up. C.J. Redwine
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Well, do as you think best. That's every man's right and duty. But for me, I pledge you now I will not surrender one grain of my rights. What I took, I took and by God, I'll keep it, too. Take her home tomorrow, Archie, and never look back to watch what I do, for you know it before. I would not give him one knigh who had confided himself to me and none other, much less you. Only over my dead body, " said Hotspur hardily, eye to eye with the friend he had made under Homildon Hill, "will King Henry ever claim you as his prisoner. . Edith Pargeter
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So if you care to find me/ Look to the western sky/ As someone told me lately/ Everyone deserves the chance to fly! / And if I'm flying solo/ At least I'm flying free/ Tell those who'd ground me/ Take a message back from me/ Tell them how I am defying gravity! / I'm flying high defying gravity/ And soon I'll match them in renown./ And nobody in all of Oz/No Wizard that there is or was/ Is ever gonna bring me down! / . Stephen Schwartz
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Leadership can mean defiance. Chuck Wendig
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She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all, " she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world." Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer. Sebastien De Castell
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It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world. Timothy B. Tyson
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Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again! ' ("Absolute Evil") Julian Hawthorne
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A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart. Terry Pratchett
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Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls. Bertrand De Jouvenel
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Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her. Kiersten White
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In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise! Mamur Mustapha
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Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control. Mark Simpson
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I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn. Iggy Pop
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Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them. Richard DavenportHines
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For your sake, jewel, I am glad at soul I have no other child; For thy escape would teach me tyranny, To hang clogs on them. William Shakespeare
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Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack and I kiss, it’s as if we’re flipping off the jerks who destroyed our planet, as if we’re screaming at the top of our lungs… We know your secret. And we won’t be made invisible. Caroline George
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In this land I have made myself sick with silence In this land I have wandered, lost In this land I hunkered down to see What will become of me. In this land I held myself tight So as not to scream.- But I did scream, so loud That this land howled back at me As hideously As it builds its houses. In this land I have been sown Only my head sticks Defiant, out of the earth But one day it too will be mown Making me, finally Of this land.- Charlie's poem . Anna Funder
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You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for yours too... CJ Redwine
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The kind of submission or resignation that he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have a better man under better circumstances. But he never justified himself by a hint tending that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape. It happened on two or three occasions in my presence, that his desperate reputation was alluded to by one or other of the people in attendance on him. A smile crossed his face then, and he turned his eyes on me with a trustful look, as if he were confident that I had seen some small redeeming touch in him, even so long ago as when I was a little child. As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain. Charles Dickens
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The old, defiant chant rose in her mind: If I want, I will learn. If I want, I will fight. If I want, I will live. And I want. And I will. This was going to be fun. P.C. Hodgell
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We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last - the power to refuse our consent. So we must certainly wash our faces without soap in dirty water and dry ourselves on our jackets. We must polish our shoes, not because the regulation states it, but for dignity and propriety. We must walk erect, without dragging our feet, not in homage to Prussian discipline but to remain alive, not to begin to die. . Primo Levi
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An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it. Amy Hennig
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Emiliano Zapata
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When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback. Tim Fargo
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Are the Trials starting?” The girl claps her hands over her mouth. “I'm sorry, ” she whispers. “I–”“It's all right.” I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. “I'm actually wondering the same thing. What's your name?”“ S-slave- Girl.” Of course. My mother would already have scourged her name out of existence.“ Right. You work for the Commandant?” I want her to say no. I want her to say that my mother roped her into this. I want her to say she's assigned to the kitchens or infirmary, where slaves aren't scarred or missing body p . Sabaa Tahir
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What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master? Courtney M. Privett
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My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. Ernest J. Gaines
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Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal"–not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification–we are overjoyed with his potential. Here is one who has a stronger foundation on which to build, one who will not knock down his every success like a child with a brick castle to see if the adults will keep helping him rebuild. Thomm Quackenbush