Roused Quotes

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.