Top 72 Refuse To Accept Quotes
#1. No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who also are creating their own time refuse to accept.
Gertrude Stein
#2. I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.
Will Smith
#3. We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.
Ayn Rand
#5. It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
Ben Shahn
#6. Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.
Hedda Hopper
#7. I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Kanye West
#8. If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.
Zhuangzi
#9. People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?
Thomas Sowell
#10. As long as the world's been the world, there's been those who live with it and those who refuse to accept it.
Yasmina Khadra
#11. Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
LL Cool J
#12. I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that forever confronts him.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#13. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#14. The power of positive thinking begins when you refuse to accept defeat, and start preparing yourself for future possibilities. The only thing standing in the way of your breakthrough, is you!
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#15. Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#16. Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.
Srikumar Rao
#17. When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
Phyllis Bottome
#18. Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand that taking care of your children is a choice not an obligation.
Gudjon Bergmann
#19. If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
Saint Basil
#20. None of us ask for some things. We don't ask to be born where we were. We don't ask for those things which limit us. We have to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we can try to change things, but you can't do any of that if you refuse to accept where you are.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#21. 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.
#22. Laughter is a gift from God. When we refuse to accept it, it makes Him want to take it back. Like the unicorns.
John Acuff
#23. Bottom line: Refuse to accept negative ideas about what you can't accomplish or what's impossible. Don't even talk to negative people while your dreams are still in the fragile incubation stage!
Doreen Virtue
#24. Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
Noam Chomsky
#25. Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist."
"If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree."
"I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.
John Green
#26. If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
James S. Coleman
#27. It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#28. With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.
Diana DeGette
#29. Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.
Herman Kahn
#30. By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull
#31. To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.
Robin Sharma
#32. Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild. When a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it. Noah
Fredrik Backman
#33. Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.
Paulo Coelho
#35. Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him ... I refuse to accept that.
Cornel West
#36. I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.
Niall Ferguson
#37. Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.
Richard Branson
#38. Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
Simon Mainwaring
#39. I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi
#40. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#41. For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality
Sanal Edamaruku
#42. Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
Robert Fisk
#43. Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.
Baba Hari Dass
#44. If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred
Christina Engela
#45. When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.
Tom Coburn
#46. I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.
Kailash Satyarthi
#47. The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting them because we decided that as an adult society, we can use children to make our lives better, if you seek the reverse.
Greg Gutfeld
#48. I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit, while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.
Barack Obama
#49. Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.
Chris Brogan
#50. Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
Bob Geldof
#51. If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
Darell Hammond
#52. Refuse to accept anything negative, which you see around you. Declare in the spiritual realm what God is saying.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
Amy Lee
#54. Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.
Warren G. Bennis
#55. Refuse to accept the many reasons why it can't be done, and ask if there are any reasons it can be done.
Hanoch McCarty
#56. All those persons who ride high on the clouds of perfection refuse to accept that they could become better persons.
Balroop Singh
#57. If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.
Napoleon Hill
#58. The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).
Napoleon Hill
#59. Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.
Chris Grabenstein
#61. Neither refuse to give help when it is needed, ... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
Lloyd Alexander
#62. Many things will hurt you and me for we are very much alike. But will these things hurt us less if we refuse to accept them? Can we ease our hurts by refusing comfort from those who love us?
Ann Nolan Clark
#63. A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
Mary Astell
#64. No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor, and instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies, and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
E.B. White
#66. THE MISCONCEPTION: You choose to accept or refuse an offer based on logic. THE TRUTH: When it comes to making a deal, you base your decision on your status.
David McRaney
#67. I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
Jane Austen
#68. To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
George Trumbull Ladd
#69. if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
Jane Austen
#70. None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.
Alex Chiu
#71. I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
Pierre Beaumarchais
#72. He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has yet been able to comprehend, and least of all the poets themselves.
Hilaire Belloc
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