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“Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.”

People Ifs Needs Done Lord Catholic Refuse

“Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.”

World Light Running Used Jesus Lines Darkness Streets Flow Catholic Currents Refuse Spread Light Of The World Power Lines

Author:Mother Teresa

“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.”

Seems Principles Conditions Refuse Happiness And Love

Book:Notebooks, 1951-1959

Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959

“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.”

Men Ideas Accepting Knowledge Learning Influence Events Rivers Management Mere Refuse Surround Unfolding Flotsam

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.”

Leadership Poor Leader Standards Performances Refuse Mediocrity Tolerate High Standards Poor Performance

Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership

“Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.”

Ifs Leadership Leader Blame Refuse Excuse

Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership

“Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.”

Ifs Giving Littles Use Time Suffering Loses Minutes Abuse Accounts Eternity Management Refuse Tiny Seconds Time Management Sixty

Author:Christine Warren

“A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.”

Persons Grows Leader Failing Risk Refuse

Book:The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

Source: The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

“The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.”

Ifs Past Design Dare Refuse Disappear Diamond Fragments Consumed Collecting Sifting

Book:A Sport and a Pastime

Source: A Sport and a Pastime

“Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse”

Common Refuse Thinker Uncommon Reuse

Author:J. R. D. Tata

“I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.”

I Can Mother Refuse Addresses

Author:Sarada Devi

“It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.”

Lasts Produce Thirds Exciting Refuse Cricket Last Day Steadfastness

Author:Frank Woolley

“I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.”

Thinking Refuse Violent Horrible Genocide Beaten Stubborn

Author:Lydia Lunch

“Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.”

Men Wisdom Purpose Natural Sin Existence Creation He Man Evidence Tools Structure Leaving Refuse Seeds Chains Visible Islamic Adam Idle Unbroken Shrinking

Author:Al-Ghazali

“I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.”

Knows Boys Refuse Quitting Greedy Vegas Las Vegas

Author:Louie Anderson

“A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.”

Men Inspirational Education University Refuse One Man Old Man Disturbed Divergent

Book:The selected writings of John Jay Chapman

Source: The selected writings of John Jay Chapman

“How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan”

Hands Loses Break Habit Patient Refuse Necks Thread Twists Wrists Strands

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur”

Should Reason Spirit Names Fame Add Intention Refuse Superiors Reputation Beaten Swept Away

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.”

People Firsts Helping Democracy Politician Concerned Refuse

Author:John F. Kerry

“There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.”

Ifs Eye Pain Fall Land Tears Refuse His Eyes

Author:Tim McGraw

“If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.”

Ifs Want Love Courses Path Risk Willing Advantage Refuse Vulnerability Openness Tolls

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.”

People Humans Problem Joy Hope Opportunity Human Beings Circumstances Tools Refuse Temptation Lazy Thinker Invites Cynical

Book:When God Whispers Your Name

Source: When God Whispers Your Name

“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.”

Use Term Results Failing Self Help Failure Refuse Planning About Yourself Reminding

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.”

Life Needs Our Lives Happened Waste Blame Forgiving Refuse Streams Steady Offense Don't Waste Your Time

Book:Hope Again: When Life Hurts and Dreams Fade

Source: Hope Again: When Life Hurts and Dreams Fade

“The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.”

Facts Turns Ability Luck Refuse Seeds Clock Exaggerated Owing Dandelions

Author:Miles Kington

“Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.”

Men Love Passion Goal Vision Possibility Men And Women Moved Refuse

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.”

Ifs Games Decision Player Anger Tables Refuse Quitting Abandon Offensive Umpires Resigning

Author:Howard Staunton

“The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.”

Mind Persons Wisdom Found Individual Easy Struggle Letting Go Refuse Faster Drowning

Author:George Ohsawa

“Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.”

Ifs World Way Loses Standards Hollywood Weight Refuse Submit Lose Weight Slim

Author:Liv Tyler

“I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.”

Giving Dog Give Me Refuse Teeth Rascals Fawns

Author:Diogenes

“Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.”

Should Long Running Jobs Economy Industry Protect Europe Competition Sticks Refuse Long Runs Protectionism

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.”

Father Offers Refuse

Author:Peter Kreeft

“It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic, but refuses to come in Hebrew. To some extent I made up my Hebrew. Unquestionably, the influence of Arabic is dominant, my syntax is almost Arabic.”

Writing Made Sometimes Happens Influence Refuse Dominant Hebrew Mischievous Syntax

Author:Sami Michael

“I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.”

World Firsts War This World Soldier Refuse War Of The Worlds Honour Imprisonment First World War German Soldiers

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.”

Standards Refuse

Author:Stephen A. Smith

“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.”

Stories Song Lost Waiting Refuse Testimony Oblivion Precious Things

Book:Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

Source: Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

“Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.”

People Mind Has Beens Matter Choices Evil Hero Refuse Oppressors

Author:Andrew Vachss

“The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.”

Book Computer Models Climate Refuse Articles Alarmists

Author:Ian Plimer

“There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'”

Kind Christian Together All Things Praise Refuse God Love Working Together Praise God

Book:Through Night to Morning

Source: Through Night to Morning

“Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.”

“AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.”

World Should Problem Fall Found Community Common Pieces Imagine Share Civilization Solutions International Refuse Scary Aids Our World Hiv International Community Really Scary

Author:Sarah Polley

“I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinued it I would probably cry. Cover Girl lash blast, in the orange tube.”

Ifs Trying Use Girl Cry Refuse Orange Blast Tubes Lashes Mascara Cover Girl

Author:Nina Dobrev

“Southern Baptist Convention's EC president Frank Page tells me: "If I'm told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse."”

Ifs Sex Couple Refuse

Author:Todd Starnes

“It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.”

People Doe States Reason Support Military Duty Conscience Notes Killing Refuse Active Curious Bureaucracy Exemption

Author:Karl Hess

“People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.”

People Inspirational May Helping Prayer Advice Refuse Helping Others Resistance Appeals Rejects Suggestions Powerless Our Prayers Resisting Silent Prayer

Author:Jill Briscoe

“Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.”

Ifs Evil Refuse Combat Evil Thoughts

Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

“The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.”

Bigs Winning Average Refuse Settling Mediocre

Author:Seth Godin

“Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.”

Men Desire Animal Refuse Satisfied Fulfillment

Author:Alexander Graham Bell

“Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.”

Heart May Pleasure Silence Sun Gone Sky Broken Shining Winter Refuse Absence Broken Heart Reign Weeping Flocks Shepherds Your Absence

Author:Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

“Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.”

Giving Fear Fields Losing Plant Refuse Seeds Kingdoms Farmers Irrational

Book:Fields of Gold

Source: Fields of Gold

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