Rejects Quotes

• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Forgivers are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person.

  Gordon Dalbey

  Pain, Difficult Choices, People

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• Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optimism, Choices, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2782, Delphi Classics

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• Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, Together, May

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• At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Cost, Judgment

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• There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

  Ned Beauman

  Advice, Lame, Kind

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• What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

  John Dryden

  Running, Giving, Judgment

  'Fables Ancient and Modern' (1700) preface

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• Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay true to your own principles. You always believe in your gift. God doesn't make mistakes when he presents someone with a gift like that. It's there for a reason. Tell the naysayers, those who reject you, to drop dead! Who cares?

  James Lee Burke

  Hurt, Wall, Mistake

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• Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Mother, Prayer, Passion

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Vanity, Attachment

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pride, Debtors, Proud

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• Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Way, Virtue, Companion

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• A right delayed is a right denied.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Rights, Rejection

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• Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

  Henri Nouwen

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.86, Image

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• Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Has Beens, Good Will

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

  L. Neil Smith

  Bravery, Goes On, Capacity

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• To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

  M. Scott Peck

  Eye, Responsibility, Discipline

  "The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth".

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• When you reject the Creator, you worship the Creation (Ro 1:23).

  Bob Enyart

  Worship, Creation, Creator

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• He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

  Henri Michaux

  Angel, Poetry, Annoying People

  Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.176, Univ of California Press

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• The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

  James A. Baldwin

  Land, Ties, Justice

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• All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

  Roger Bacon

  People, Brain, Facts

  1267 OpusMajus, pt.4, ch.1 (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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• A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Men, Doe

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.753, Best Books on

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