It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest. . . it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.
When they asked me, couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said, 'NO!' and I say again 'NO!'. . . one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance.
Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.
The pain pushes you, until the vision pulls you
No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around.
Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.
Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.
If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow. . . we become more valuable human beings.
Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.
You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.
Highly sensitive people are often afraid to speak up, until life pushes them to do so.
But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.
Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.
When I'm going against guys like Kevin Durant - one of the best leading scorers in the league - it pushes you to want to get better, seeing how hard he works.