70 Refrain Quotes
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Famous Refrain Quotes
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. — Juvenal
Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain. — Choi Hong Hi
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun? — Richard Francis Burton
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. — Pythagoras
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins — Priscilla Shirer
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. — William Shakespeare
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. — Marcus Aurelius
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen
Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids. — Mason Cooley
Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic. — Bret Harte
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. — Brian Tracy
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca
Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. — Archilochus
Short Refrain Quotes
- Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour. — Gichin Funakoshi
- There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. — Rachel Carson
- I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process. — Bill Belichick
- Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin. — Thomas Aquinas
- Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? — William Shakespeare
- Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer. — Lisa Ling
- Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. — Simone Weil
- To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat. — Buddha
- Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do. — Paulo Coelho
- The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. — Margaret Halsey
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 William Shakespeare |
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 Ieyasu Tokugawa |
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 Juvenal |
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 Richard Francis Burton |
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 Pythagoras |
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 Priscilla Shirer |
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More Refrain Quotes
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. — Rachel Carson
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else. — Dogen
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen. — Polycarp
To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society. — Pedro Arrupe
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life. — Gregory of Nyssa
I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people. — Augustus
In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth. — Oliver Burkeman
Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts only for a day, but the glory of the forbearing lasts until the end of time. Though unjustly aggrieved, it is best to suffer the suffering and refrain from unrighteous retaliation. — Thiruvalluvar
On a human flourishing standard, we want to avoid not climate change but climate danger – and we want to increase climate livability by adapting to and mastering climate, not simply refrain from impacting climate. — Alex Epstein
Many rightist movements, refraining from hyperinflammatory rhetoric or arming vigilante “brotherhoods” to combat leftists and Jews and assassinate public figures, were considerably less volatile than the Union of the Russian People. — Stephen Kotkin
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view. — Huineng
shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no! — Maria W. Stewart
The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin! — Benedict of Nursia
Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead. — Hsuan Hua
Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. — Tom T. Hall
What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We shouldn’t have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to feel safe from state surveillance. Nor should the price of immunity be refraining from controversial or provocative dissent. — Glenn Greenwald
It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way because the punishment is not only degrading to those on whom it is imposed, but it is also degrading to the society that engages in the same behavior as the criminals. — Stephen Bright
If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer. — John Maynard Keynes
For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell. — Michael Ondaatje
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage. — Isak Dinesen
O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever? — Angela of Foligno
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide - the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality. — H. P. Lovecraft
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — François-René de Chateaubriand
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it. — Benjamin Tucker
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. — Buddha
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that. — Meister Eckhart
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing. — Blaise Pascal
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley
We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true. — Carroll Eugene Simcox
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. — Don Williams
Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man. — Umar
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing. — Henrik Ibsen
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. — Bill Griffith
If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error. — Rene Descartes
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible. — Che Guevara
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