“To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.” SpiritBornResistanceYield Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.” GivingHeartArtMadeWarStatesWould BeSpiritWealthForgetNumbersLibertyArmsEasierActivityVictimUnionsCorruptionNobleTyrannyResistanceRuinsLuxuryAncestorTranquilityEmployedArt Of WarZealInvincibleDescendantsFormidableAccelerate Author:Samuel Adams
“There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.” MenSpiritEndureSizeResistanceBreastsResentmentDestinedDeities Author:Charles James Fox
“There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.” IfsMenLooksIdeasWould BeMovingSpiritReadingStrongBornProgressWillingTypeCivilizationBattleStandardsIntelligentInstinctAverageConservativeCurrentsNewspapersResistanceDullStableNew IdeasStatus QuoAdventurousPromptsAverage ManBrakeHereditaryFears Of LifeAdventurous Spirit Author:Gertrude Atherton