Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us. — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy! — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest… — Donna Fargo Copy Share Image
As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast,… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it… — George Takei Copy Share Image
First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“What makes you think I am not teaching you? Aside from the fact that you refuse to learn.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
“I refuse to put God into a little box I can handle, for that would insult us both.” — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine. — Thomas Cranmer Copy Share Image
I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. — Sjon Copy Share Image
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image