Thwarted Quotes

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba

Life, Peace, Death

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Meister Eckhart

Attitude, Order

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Emile M. Cioran

Thought, Sensation, Derives

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
Suze Orman

Dreams, Good, Failure

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri Matisse

Grow, Tree, Instinct

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Charles Horton Cooley

Life, Power, Open

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal

Men, Poverty, Easy

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
Janet Reno

Time, Best, Father

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.
Brian Cox

Work, Hard, Enjoy

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Claude McKay

Human, Grow, Nations

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Jerome Bruner

Process, Perception, Exhibits

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