R Quotes
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“Refuse to define your success by what you have in the bank. Seek more than that. Aim for success in your health and wealth.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.”
“Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.”
“Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.”
“Refuse to feel inadequate because of lack, refuse to let it become permanent, and refuse to use it as an excuse for not pursuing your dreams. See way beyond the lack, even if it keeps doing its best to pull you back.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Refuse to function at a fraction of your potential. Take the necessary steps to a successful life.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Refuse to give time, energy, or focus to anything that doesn't belong in your future.”
“Refuse to give up and your life will be an exciting journey.”
“Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you.
They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you.”
“Refuse to honour the genius who has abused his gifts.”
Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
“Refuse to let an old person move into your body.”
Source: Everyday Wisdom
“Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.”
“Refuse to let the stuff of life tie you down and paralyze you. Do not let your personal problems control your productivity. Focus on what you can do not what you cannot control. Have the confidence to be the exception, the outlier that overcomes all obstacles – someone who is willing to bet on themselves. That’s a winning formula.”
“Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.”
“Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.”
“Refuse to let your love grow cold. Stir up love in your life - towards your spouse and towards your family, friends, neighbours, co-workers. Reach out to others who are hurting and in need. Pray for people and bless them. Grow to the point that one of your first thoughts each morning in your heart is about how you can bless someone else that day.”
“Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.”
Source: Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life
“Refuse to let yourself succumb to the irrelevant judgment of others, and do not let the fear of standing out from the crowd paralyze you into living a monotonous and average life.”
Source: Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism
“Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.”
“Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.”
Source: Effective Leadership
“Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!”
“Refuse to settle for counterfeit comfort! It’s not you hun! You’re a heavy weight and weak minded people understand, to be able to hold you, hurts. Why? Because they realize they don’t have the strength to carry someone such as yourself and that’s ok. There is someone with strength that will not fumble you but pray for the strength to match your weight.”
“Refuse to settle for counterfeit comfort! It's not you, hun. You're a heavyweight, and weak-minded people understand that to be able to hold you hurts. Why? Because they realize they don't have the strength to carry someone like yourself, and that's okay. There is someone with strength who will not fumble you, but pray for the strength to match your weight.”
“Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption obscures reality without destroying it. All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false..Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time.The mind creates time and space and takes its own creations for reality.”
“Refuse to waste time trying to convince yourself that you don't have time, when you could be using that time to actually 'do' it.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Refuse to wear a crown that takes away your dignity. Remember, you were born to reign in victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Refuse to worry. Cast your anxiety upon the Lord. He cares for you.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Refuse to worry to keep your body healthy.”
“Refuse to write your life and you have no life.”
“Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience, conduit rapidement à une destruction, pour soi-même comme pour les autres, de toute raison de vivre comme de tout futur possible, et vous plonge dans un ennui pesant qui finit par se transformer en une amertume atroce, accompagnée de haine et de rancoeur à l'égard de ceux qui appartiennent encore à la vie.”
Source: The Possibility of an Island
“Refuser à la technique toute valeur propre en dehors de la connaissance qu'elle réussit à s'incorporer, c'est rendre inintelligible l'allure irrégulière des progrès du savoir et ce dépassement de la science par la puissance que les positivistes ont si souvent constaté en le déplorant. Si la témérité d'une technique, ignorante des obstacles qu'elle rencontrera, n'anticipait constamment sur la prudence de la connaissance codifiée, les problèmes scientifiques, qui sont des étonnements après avoir été des échecs, seraient bien peu nombreux à résoudre. Voilà ce qui reste vrai dans l'empirisme, philosophie de l'aventure intellectuelle, et que méconnaît une méthode expérimentale un peu trop tentée, par réaction, de se rationaliser.”
Source: The Normal and the Pathological
“refusez l'injonction millénaire de faire à tout prix des enfants. Elle est insupportable et réduit les femmes à un ventre. Dépossédées de tout pouvoir, elles n'ont longtemps eu droit qu'à ce destin : perpétuer l'humanité. Et malheur aux femmes stériles (qu'on ne se privait pas de répudier) ou au choix de la "nullipare" : il était incompréhensible, sinon répréhensible. La "mère" était souveraine. La littérature, les conventions sociales, la publicité, les lois en ont créé un stéréotype, que l'on met sur un piédestal, auréolé de son abnégation et de son oubli d'elle-même. On méprise la femme, mais on vénère la mère, dont l'enfant devient l'ornement.”
Source: Une farouche liberté
“Refusing! And she is after me with a broom, trying to sweep my rotten carcass into the open. Why, shades of Gregor Samsa! Hello Alex, goodbye Franz! "You better tell me you're sorry, you, or else! And I don't mean maybe either!" I am five, maybe six, and she is or-elsing me and not-meaning-maybe as though the firing squad is already outside, lining the street with newspaper preparatory to my execution.”
Source: Portnoy’s Complaint
“Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.”
“Refusing neo-liberalism will open you up to a world where ‘feminist’ means much more than ‘woman’ or ‘equality’. Making these connections is crucial to any revolutionary work because it means that nobody is left behind, nobody’s exploitation goes unseen. It asks us to practice radical compassion, to refuse to ignore the pain of others. It demands that we see how tackling seemingly unrelated phenomena like prison expansion, the rise of fascism, neocolonialism and climate crisis must also become our priorities.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“Refusing someone’s kind words can cause the one doing the complimenting to feel bad. Not only might they regret trying to be nice, but you may have cut off your chances of being complimented by them ever again. Being humble is one thing; being rude is another. Practice receiving compliments with grace, dignity, appreciation, and gratitude. The perfect response to a fine compliment is simply, “Thank you!”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.”
“Refusing to acknowledge the contracts of women in pornography places them in the same legal category as children or mental incompetents. In Indianapolis, the anti-pornography ordinance argued that women, like children, needed special protection under the law:
"Children are incapable of consenting to engage in pornographic conduct.... By the same token, the physical and psychological well-being of women ought to be afforded comparable protection, for the coercive environment ... vitiates any notion that they consent or `choose' to perform in pornography." [2]
This attitude of "I'm a helpless victim" could easily backfire on women who may be required to prove they are able to manage their own finances, or to handle custody of their own children. Moreover, the idea of men "emotionally or verbally coercing" women re-enforces the concept of men as intellectually and psychologically stronger than women. It is the old "Man of Steel/ Woman of Kleenex" myth.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“Refusing to acknowledge the historical trauma of those around us is a cultural tradition many of us have been handed down, generation to generation forming our foundation of erasing wrongs so we don't have to right them. But we can change these traditions and narratives. The world can change, because we can change. I have so much hope for you. I have so much hope for me”
Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First
“Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.”
“Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Refusing to collaborate with a transendental, totalising and finally determining sense of national identity, Scottish novelists since the 1980s have concentrated instead on individual moments of crisis, alienation and fragmentation, moments dramatising the loss and discovery of self, as they are articulated through the lives of some of thos conventionally excluded from the story of Scotland.”
Source: Studies in Scottish Fiction: 1945 to the Present
“Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.”
Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“Refusing to feel your emotions doesn't just make them go away. Just like a neighbor trying to warn you of a fire, they have a vital message to share. They'll continue banging on the door, getting louder and louder the longer their message goes ignored.”
“Refusing to forgive is a sin against God. We should trust God for justice and forgive the person the person that who offended us.”
“Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.”
“Refusing to Give Up
The essence of human bravery is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. We can save the world from destruction, to begin with. That is why the Shambhala vision exists. It is a centuries-old idea: by serving the world we can save it.”
Source: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.”
“Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.”