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If you don't want something, refuse it! Refusal is your true way to the stars! Man rises by refusing with courage the things he finds inconvenient!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
— Martha Beck
There are seasons when faith shows itself in taking; there are seasons when it is witnessed in refusing.
— George H Morrison
True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.
— Charles Colson
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
— Marianne Moore
You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
— Alan Cohen
Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
— Kenneth L. Pike
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Retain your peace by refusing to respond to rude, judgemental, or prying people. They won't understand anyway.
— Manprit Kaur
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
— Peter Diamandis
There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
— Criss Jami
We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!
— Neal A. Maxwell
I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)
— Ronald Reagan
Hermione was now refusing to speak to Harry and Ron, but she was such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus.
— J.K. Rowling
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
— Robert Walpole
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
— Norman Lamm
What do you call a slap that's waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress
— Angelos Michalopoulos
They brought ruin upon themselves by refusing to minister to others.
— Ellen G. White
It's death," I say, refusing to raise my voice, "because when you're hungry, you can't stop thinking about eating other people.
— Rainbow Rowell
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
— Robert Smith
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
— Phil Crosby
That is OK, not knowing something is not bad. What is bad is refusing to recognise that you are missing knowledge and refusing to learn.
— Christos Tsotsos
You may have heard the saying, Refusing to forgive is like drinking poison and hoping it kills the other person.
— Joyce Meyer
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
— Chenjerai Hove
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I'd failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.
— Megan Whalen Turner
To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.
— Colin McGinn
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
— Samuel Daniel
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
— Antonia Bird
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
— Cesare Pavese
Humor is ... despair refusing to take itself seriously.
— Arland Ussher
Will we remain faithful in our obedience to God and be willing to suffer the humiliation of refusing to be independent?
— Oswald Chambers
Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.
— Jacques Rogge
The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.
— Charlie Munger
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
— C.S. Lewis
But ghosts aren't what you think they are. Ghosts are just the past, refusing to go away, making sure we never forget.
— Christopher Sword
Good relentlessly calls us to accountability, abjectly refusing to hand us free passes for poor choices and unethical decisions.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The lies we construct to defend ourselves from humiliation are the strongest, refusing to be torn down.
— Sloane Crosley
We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.
— Raymond Williams
Being a seeker of truth means refusing to make assumptions about things that you do not know.
— Sadghuru
I protect myself by refusing to know myself.
— Floriano Martins
She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.
— Terry Goodkind
And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
— John Bigelow
The sun was a toddle insistently refusing to go to bed; it was past 8:30 and still light.
— John Green
It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
— Max Lucado
I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
— Veronica Roth
Making a mistake isn't bad; what's bad is refusing to learn from it so you don't repeat it.
— Colleen Houck
Halpin deserves credit for REFUSING TO COMPROMISE WITH LIFE BY ACCEPTING AND KEEPING A JOB HE DID NOT WANT,
— Napoleon Hill
We are not exceptional in our beginnings, we become exceptional by refusing to accept the obstacles which destiny has placed before us.
— Evelyn J. Hinz
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
— Ayn Rand
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
— Leigh Hunt
You can make the world beautiful just by refusing to lie about it.
— Pleasefindthis
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.
— Martin Of Tours
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
— Ric Ocasek
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."- Plato — Sienna Wilder
At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.
— Melina Marchetta
The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?
— William Badke
I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.
— Patricia Goldbach
By Refusing to accept things, because they do not please us,we spend most of our lives making meaningless gestures Somewhere Next Door to Reality.
— ZBS Foundation
Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.
— Stephen Arterburn
Refusing to believe that change can occur at any moment is one of the worst of human failings.
— Leigh Hershkovich
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
— Oprah Winfrey
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
— Benjamin Graham
But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
— Arthur Helps
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
— Dan B. Allender
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
— Baruch Spinoza
Look at her," said a pert little dinoflagellate with a perfectly smooth protein coat. "Look at her with her nose up in the air, refusing to divide.
— Stacey Richter
