Quotes about Refuse

Brian Tracy

Author, Public Speaker

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

Compromise - Refuse

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

Chemistry - Mindset - Refuse - Remedy - Waiting - Worrying

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Actions - Crime - Effectiveness - Possibility - Refuse

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.

Age - Chance - Death - Extraordinary - Finding - Man - Oblivion - Poverty - Refuse - Soul - Talent - Yielding

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John C. Maxwell

Scientist, Clergyman, Author

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

Failing - Growing - Leadership - Refuse - Risk

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Death - Man - Refuse

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Giving - Refuse - Sameness - Woman

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

Culture - Individual - Problem - Refuse - Whole

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Making - Rebelling - Refuse - State

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Ambiguity - Crying - Goals - Man - Peace - Persistence - Refuse

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Virgil

Poet

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

Refuse - Willing

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

America - Essence - Feelings - Military - Ownership - Refuse

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Philosopher

Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part.

Mindset - Perseverance - Quiet - Rebelling - Refuse - Yielding

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

Generosity - Giving - Jealousy - Joy - Refuse - Sacred - Swimming

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Solomon

King of Israel

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

Accept - Refuse

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Effort - People - Refuse - Reward

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.

Afternoon - Balance - Knowledge - Mindset - Quality - Refuse - Remembering - Selfishness - Sometimes - Waiting - Whole

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

Abuse - Accept - Man - Refuse - Someday - Wisdom

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Belief - Defeat - Peace - Racism - Reality - Refuse - Triumph - Truth

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

Chance - Failing - People - Refuse - Strength

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