Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.
– Sun Tzu
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- Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun. – Debasish Mridha
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- Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
- Leaders take actions. Attacking your plans with blows of actions will not cost you painful but temporal bruises. Never leave goals untouched. – Israelmore Ayivor
- You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it. – Richie Norton
- Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- When someone is attacking you, they are coming to you for advice. – Bryant McGill
- I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful. – Carl R Rogers
- Lust is like a robin attacking his reflection in a pane of glass again and again. – Leslie Daniels
- Don’t be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. – Karen E Quinones Miller
- Don’t be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. – Karen E Quinones Miller
- At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry. – Sheryl Sandberg
- Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act? – Kyra Gregory
- Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness. – Rob Thomas
- Getting defensive doesn’t hide the fact that you know you could have done better. Stop putting your energy into your excuses. – Tony Curl
- Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove – Dan Skinner
- Standing alone is better than standing with people who don’t appreciate you. – Iva Ursano
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- If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. ‘If you ain’t scared of standing up for what’s right, you ain’t standing up for much. – Kenneth Logan
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- It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. – William Kingdon Clifford
- If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don’t believe on the basis of insufficient evidence–and punishes those who do. – Peter Boghossian
- It is insufficient to understand all, and thus to forgive all. If we were to truly understand, we would know there is nothing to forgive. – Ronald Chapman
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- Sometimes our worst fears aren’t realized – though in my experience it’s only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house. – Mark Lawrence
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- Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading. – Robert Aickman
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