Refuse Quotes

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

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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.

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

We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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.

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

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 friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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 most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

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

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie