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

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

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.

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

In spite of some bad experiences, I’m a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

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.

Nothing should be done for spite’s sake.

In spite of her cute little angelic face and pink sneakers, Brianna is actually a baby Tyrannosaurus rex. On STEROIDS!

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don’t chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

My body loves my in spite of how I may treat it. My body communicates with me, and I now listen to its messages. I am willing to GET the message.

If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, ‘you will receive a never-fading crown of glory’

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time elsewhere. For the victory are necessary, not only certain objective conditions, internal as well as external, but also certain subjective factors – the Party, the leadership, the strategy.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.