If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
Quotes about contending (16 Quotes)
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.
Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms
Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
With envy of each other's happiness,
May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days among the believers in Rome, teaches that Christians should not despise or judge others. He does not advise them to find a happy medium between the contending opinions or to average the two extremes in a compromise. On the contrary, he admonished them that 'every one be fully convinced in his own mind' (Rom. 145), because God is able to make both stand, as both of them are serving the Lord in obedience to their individual convictions of His will.... Each of us has to find personally what is the will of God for his own life, and let all others meet their responsibility to do the same.... For God, by giving different commands to many, and putting them together according to His plan, shall accomplish ultimately His complete will.
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things and, second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Every human being hath two inclinations - one prompting him to good and impelling him thereto, and the other prompting him to evil and thereto impelling him but Divine assistance is nigh, and he who asketh the help of God in contending with the evil promptings of his own heart obtaineth it.
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
Times glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction the kindling of passions, not their pacification the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.