Refuse Quotes
1583 quotes by 1196 authors
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The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and…
— Zhuangzi
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
— Seneca the Younger
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The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.
— Martin of Tours
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Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you…
— Mother Teresa
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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
— Albert Camus
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
— Brian Tracy
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Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.
— Brian Tracy
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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But…
— Christine Warren
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A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.
— John C. Maxwell
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The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through,…
— James Salter
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Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse
— J. R. D. Tata
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I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.
— Sarada Devi
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It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best…
— Frank Woolley
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I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
— Lydia Lunch
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She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets…
— Helene Cixous
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Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the…
— Al-Ghazali
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I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that…
— Louie Anderson
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A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,…
— John Jay Chapman
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