I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
– Andr Gide
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- Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. – Andr Gide
- There’s no better cure for the fear of taking after one’s father, than not to know who he is. – Andr Gide
- This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene–a moment’s forgetfulness suffice. – Andr Gide
- One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andr Gide
- What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told. – Andr Gide
- Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it. – Andr Gide
- Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness. – Andr Gide
- Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness. – Andr Gide
- In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring… – Andr Gide
- Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. – Andr Gide
- In a world in which everyone cheats, it’s the honest man who passes for a charlatan. – Andr Gide
- She already loved me too much to see me as I was. – Andr Gide
- The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -” because they were too obvious. – Andr Gide
- Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature! – Andr Gide
- Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure. – Andr Gide
- Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least. – Andr Gide
- Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least. – Andr Gide
- There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity. – Andr Gide
- He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust–a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything. – Andr Gide
- Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours. – Ilyas Kassam
- Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise! – Mamur Mustapha
- Love begets faith.Faith begets courage.Courage begets strength.Strength begets positive thoughts. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ‘n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance. – Bono
- Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Positive thoughts multiply, They bring their own images of joy Which erase dark shadows, Bring happiness. – Balroop Singh
- Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. – Catherine Anderson
- Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage. – Carol Shields
- It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe. – Katlyn Charlesworth
- Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don’t be a courage thief. – Benjamin Lotter
- Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness. – Rabindranath Tagore
- In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will. – Winston S Churchill
- Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance! – Hannah Witton
- Leadership can mean defiance. – Chuck Wendig
- Creativity is an act of defiance. – Twyla Tharp
- Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us. – Tim Challies
- A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind’s battered heart. – Terry Pratchett
- Success is getting through defiance, adversity and difficulties, feeling hopeless and defeated but never giving up until you achieve your goal – Rodrigo De Saro
- Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances – Su Williams