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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

Human, Personal, Obstacles

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill

Long, Hard, May

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Life, Happiness, Greatest

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank

Good, Death, Heart

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley

Trust, Best, Blessed

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Win

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Forward, Made

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Great, Belief

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

Strong, Soul, Weak

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

Strength, Hero, Individual

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers

Government, Country, Run

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

Before, Keep, Resolve

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

Good, Heart, Everything

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh

Great, Everything, Again

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Life, Happiness, Rather

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James

Heart, Seems, Surely

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

Education, Sense, Result

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

Good, Heart, Everything

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo

Love, Work, Age

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich

Courage, Accept, Oneself

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot

Experience, Ability, Practical

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

Strength, Hero, Individual

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Time, Death, Society

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron

Mind, Point, Turn

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Pearl S. Buck

Yourself, Feelings, Cannot

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May

Courage, Rather, Despair

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Life, Love, Friendship

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor Adorno

Truth, Real, Belief

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
Christopher Hitchens

Quite, Abuse, Decent

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
William Feather

Success, Work, Hard

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