Rebuffs Quotes

#1. O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Walt Whitman

#2. Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.

George A. Smith

#3. The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

Sigmund Freud

#4. To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do."

Me imperturbe

Walt Whitman

#5. Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times; while fortune is bestowing favors on it is then is the time for it to be strengthened against her rebuffs.

Seneca.

#7. Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life - free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs - than to be artificially [stimulated].

Billy Graham

#8. The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#9. Let me pass this way but once and do what good I can, I shall not pass this way again.

Sally Morgan

#10. Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

Adrian Lyne

#11. Mr. Collins shook his head. "Stay off the roof," he ordered. Then he paused. "Stay off all the roofs." The fact that he felt he had to make that clarification told me a great deal about Asher Rhodes.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#12. He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.

Colin S. Smith

#13. I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.

Rani Mukerji

#14. Everyone has a temptation; a weakness that they would yield to. Mine is you. Not only you, but your love. For your love is unique. For you are the other half of my soul. I feel you, even when you are not there. It's like a shadow. You are my shadow. Your love follows me every step I tread.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#15. The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#17. Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

Mary Jane Ward

#19. In Sanskrit this ardent, one-pointed, self-transcending passion is called tapas, and the Vedas revere it as an unsurpassable creative force. From the tapas of God, the Rig Veda says, the cosmos itself was born.

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