Demands Quotes

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Work, Today

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Strength, True, Person

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

Strength, Courage, Woman

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

Against, Conscience, State

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sympathy, True, Giving

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience, Rich, Poor

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain

Society, Person, Made

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

Less, Won, General

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan

Peace, Wife, Loyalty

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sacrifice, Law, Effective

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Abdul Kalam

Strength, Career, Whether

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Cannot, Everyone

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

Friend, Person, Silence

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt Romney

Faith, Powerful, Jesus

Success demands singleness of purpose.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Purpose

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Live, Try

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

Peace, Truth, War

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

Power, Society, Character

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand

Money, Men, Stupidity

Every story has its demands.
Clint Eastwood

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Times, Whose, Policy

Music for me, it demands full concentration.
Paulo Coelho

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch

Marriage, Selfish, Person

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Marquis de Sade

Passion, Lust, Served

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Minds, Desire, Situation

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men, Sad, Makes

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
Larry Elder

Woman, Control, Gun

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

Able, Listen, Wonder

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Woman, Same, She

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
Swami Sivananda

Great, Struggle, Triumph

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