Distaste Quotes

• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

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• If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

  Sun Tzu

  Money, Military, War

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Hurt

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Character, Justice, Feelings

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.50, Sophia Institute Press

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• The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

  Arnold Bennett

  Inspirational, Self Confidence, Gains

  Arnold Bennett (2006). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

  Robert Rubin

  Thinking, Facts, Life Is

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• I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

  John Piper

  Long, Triumph, Way

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• While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

  David Antin

  Song, Thinking, Speech

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• You the Dark-Hunter?" Kyrian arched a brow. "You the flunky?" "I don't like your tone." "And I dont't like you. Now that we've dispensed with the introductions and have declared our mutual distaste for one another, why don't you take me to the one who holds your leash?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Hunters, Tone

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• At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Death, Men, Choices

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• The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Pollution Control, Important

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• As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Men, Effort, Agents

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…”, p.16, e-artnow

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• Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Father, Dark, White

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• Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

  Florence King

  Friendship, Relationship, Wall

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• Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Giving, Honor, Intense

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.214, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, People

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Simple, Suffering, Three

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• That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief does not seem unreasonable. Nor is it absurd to expect that they should go forth with a lively interest in the ways in which knowledge is improved and a marked distaste for all conclusions reached in disharmony with the methods of scientific inquiry.

  John Dewey

  School, Knowledge, Science

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, H. S. Thayer (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1910-1911”, p.77, SIU Press

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• For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?

  David Berlinski

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.

  Watchman Nee

  Emotional, Evil, Mind

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• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  Harold Brodkey

  Collision, Mutual, Pure

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