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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

Fight, Laugh, Win

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward

Love, Forget, May

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Family, Once

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell

Failure, Socialism, General

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Lance Armstrong

Hope, Fight, Children

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
Boris Kodjoe

Life, Happy, Past

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Helen Rowland

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles

Good, Men, Lost

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden

Life, May, Whatever

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
Les Brown

Through, Dream, Possible

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

America, Cannot, Wait

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Helen Reddy

Woman, Big, Hear

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono

Someone, Through, Decisions

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Women, Society, Down

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham

Evil, Universe, Order

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
Jim Elliot

Women, True, Cannot

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Richard Dawkins

Book, Off, Minds

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.
Kesha

Try, Haters, Show

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
Russell Lynes

Laugh, Insult, Off

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana

Living, Wrong, Else

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Nhat Hanh

Love, Person, Understand

There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.
Jimmy Fallon

Love, Smart, Someone

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
Samuel Goldwyn

Attention, Pay, Critics

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.
Jim Evans

Control, Another, Lose

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Kin Hubbard

Nothing, Young, Old

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck

Courage, Give, Unless

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie

Book, Return, Offer

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life, War, Death

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Beauty, Flower, Decided

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
Tony Benn

Time, Find, Same

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