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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Refuse.
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Inspirational Generosity
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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