Refuse Quotes
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
Ray LaMontagne
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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
Honore de Balzac
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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
Bette Lord
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One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
Claudine Guerin de Tencin
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I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.
Mindy Kaling
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
Thomas Sowell
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The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.
Eric Reid
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Claudine Guerin de Tencin
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Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
Stephen Fry
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People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some people are quick to challenge others but refuse to look in the mirror and challenge themselves.
Behdad Sami
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...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
Elisabeth Elliot
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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
Seth Godin
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When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself. Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.
Bob Proctor
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Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.
Ajahn Chah
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Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.
Stuart Wilde
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Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.
Nicole Kidman
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I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pain of others by recalling my own sufferings.
David Sztybel
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The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances.
Stuart Wilde