Rebuff Quotes

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Personality, Quality

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Voice, Weakness

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Struggle, Skills

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Moving, Opportunity

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Taken, Soul

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  Og Mandino

  Struggle, Victory And Defeat, Obstacles

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, War, Stupid

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.35, Open Court Publishing

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• I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

  Anne Roiphe

  Moving, Perfect, World

  "Friendship by the Book: An Interview with Anne Roiphe". Interview with Irene S. Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Learning, Joy

  Robert Browning (2007). “Poems by Robert Browning (Student Edition)”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

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• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Struggle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, Degrees, Individualism

  GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1967). “THE SERMONS AND DEVOTIONAL WRITINGS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS”

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• 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

  Optimistic, Voice, Doe

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• Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.

  George Gilder

  Sacrifice, Frustration, Giving

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

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• The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

  Peter Medawar

  Matter, Truth Is, Scientist

  Peter Brian Medawar, J. S. Medawar (1985). “Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology”, p.196, Harvard University Press

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

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Night, Self

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Song of Myself: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892”, p.188, e-artnow

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• Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Opportunity, Self

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• Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond quickly and sexually with the first willing female they lay eyes on.
  Women, by contrast, will rebuff advances or expressions of affection and desire when under stress. The reason may be that the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain, abruptly shutting off a woman's desire for sex and physical touch.

  Louann Brizendine

  Sex, Stress, Block

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• With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow.

  Paul Celan

  Eye, Keys, Blood

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