Acceptance Quotes
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. (Quote by - Erasmus)
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. (Quote by - Maurice Godelier)
We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. (Quote by - Ida R. Wylie)
Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment(Quote by - Anonymous)
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. (Quote by - Mary McLeod Bethune)
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. (Quote by - Jean Vanier)
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does. (Quote by - Mary S. Almanac)
One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. (Quote by - Barbara Sher)
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there. (Quote by - Belle Livingstone)
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty. (Quote by - Florida Scott)
If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. (Quote by - J. Donald Walters)
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. (Quote by - Malcolm Forbes)
I accept the universe! (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision. (Quote by - High Eagle)
Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are. (Quote by - Mack McGinnis)
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir )
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self- denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. (Quote by - Thornton T. Munger)
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. (Quote by - Thomas A. Bennett)
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. (Quote by - William Styron)
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do. (Quote by - Edward Everett Hale)
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. (Quote by - Arthur Gordon)
The ACCEPTANCE that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind. (Quote by - Fay Weldon)
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself, but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. (Quote by - Stewart E. White)
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme ACCEPTANCE of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviours, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment. (Quote by - Source Unknown)
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool. (Quote by - Whoopi Goldberg)
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self- esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. (Quote by - Sam Walton)
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. (Quote by - Denis De Rougamont)
Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed. (Quote by - Charles A. Hawley)
Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities . (Quote by -of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. (Quote by - David Grayson)
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there . (Quote by - you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. .. And above all, accept these things. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
Patience means self- suffering. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Kill me today or accept me as i am , for i will never change. (Quote by - Unknown)
One must not hope to be more than one can be. (Quote by - Nicolas de Chamfort)
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence, applaud yourself!. (Quote by - Rusty Berkus)
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. (Quote by - Ugo Betti)
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)
The fruit of self understanding is self acceptance. The fruit of self acceptance is self love. The fruit of self love is love for the world. The fruit of love for the world is service to the world. The fruit of service to the world is peace. (Quote by - Russell Rowe)
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. (Quote by - May Sarton)
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely. (Quote by - Hillary Rodham Clinton)
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. (Quote by - Sandra Bierig)
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. (Quote by - Edwin H. Chapin)
It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world. (Quote by - Elizabeth Blackwell)
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. (Quote by - Albert Einstein.)
Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not. (Quote by - Ruth P. Freedman)
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I am what I am, so take me as I am!. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. (Quote by - Jessica Lange)
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self- activity. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. (Quote by - Edna Ferber)
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out. (Quote by - Marlon Brando)
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break. (Quote by - Billy Joel)
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. (Quote by - Foster C. Mcclellan)
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. (Quote by - Nicolas de Chamfort)
Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it. (Quote by - John Morely)
Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?. (Quote by - Sherwood Anderson)
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. (Quote by - Louise Bourgeois)
So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong. (Quote by - Vita Sackville)
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?(Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly. (Quote by - Teresa of Avila)
Art is the signature of civilizations. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
Your problem is you're .. too busy holding onto your unworthiness. (Quote by - Ram Dass)
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. (Quote by - John Updike)
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. (Quote by - C. G. Jung)
I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain. (Quote by - Sean Connery)
Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying. (Quote by - Source Unknown)
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. (Quote by - Rosa Luxemburg)
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. (Quote by - Russell Lynes)
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. (Quote by - Kenneth L. Pike)
The self- styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life. (Quote by - Alex Haley)
To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves. (Quote by - Anonymous)
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier. (Quote by - Bette Midler)
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. (Quote by - James A. Froude)
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. (Quote by - Simone De Beauvoir)
It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do. (Quote by - Charly Heavenrich)
Do not wish to be anything but what you are. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)
Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman, not the grief of a child .. (Quote by - Kara DiGiovanna)
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. (Quote by - Paul Tournier)
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. (Quote by - Pearl Bailey)
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. (Quote by - Sarah Boseley)
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?. (Quote by - Hillel)
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. (Quote by - Eartha Kitt)
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?. (Quote by - Goldie Hawn)
A hero is a man who does what he can. (Quote by - Romain Rolland)
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is. (Quote by - John Naisbitt)
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk. (Quote by - Colleen Dewhurst)
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. (Quote by - Margaret Fontey)
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write. (Quote by - Robert B. Parker)
How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional. (Quote by - Sue Atchley Ebaugh)
We cannot all be masters. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. (Quote by - Dr. Harriet Braiker)
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers. (Quote by - Martha Bacon)
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. (Quote by - Jim Jarmusch)
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. (Quote by - Lorraine Hansbury)
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!. (Quote by - Bette Midler)
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt. (Quote by - Berthold Auerbach)
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing. (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life. (Quote by - Ellen Sue Stern)
Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves. (Quote by - Bonaro Overstreet)
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. (Quote by - Gail Hamilton)
When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.(Quote by - Jane Roberts)
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling. (Quote by - Margaret Anderson)
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Spirituality is .. the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. (Quote by - Sharon Begley)
To succeed is nothing it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. (Quote by - Marie Leneru)
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. (Quote by - Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
In my business, you measure your respect by the enemies you make. (Quote by - Theo E. Colborn)
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. (Quote by - William Feather)
Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance. (Quote by - Rhonda Britten)
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. (Quote by - Alexander the Great)
I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. (Quote by - Brenda Ueland)
The art of ACCEPTANCE is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favour wish that he might have done you a greater one. (Quote by - Russell Lynes)
I'm not a self- made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today. (Quote by - Jessie Hill)
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Every man stamps his value on himself .. man is made great or small by his own will. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius. (Quote by - Maude Adams)
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. (Quote by - Jose Ortega y Gasset)
Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!. (Quote by - Meg Ryan)
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!. (Quote by - Marie Bashkirtseff)
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. (Quote by - Antoinette Brown Blackwell)
Learn to .. be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Our entire life .. consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow. (Quote by - Elizabeth Taylor)
To find the good life you must become yourself. (Quote by - Dr. Bill Jackson)
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
Perseverance, self- reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again. (Quote by - Source Unknown)
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)
Happiness can exist only in ACCEPTANCE. (Quote by - Denis De Rougamont)
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. (Quote by - Saint Francis of Assisi)
We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self- promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co- worker. (Quote by - Jeffrey P. Davidson)
Attitude is your ACCEPTANCE of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that ACCEPTANCE. (Quote by - Maurice Wagner)
It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for. (Quote by - Charlotte P. Gilman)
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbours. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. (Quote by - William James)
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!. (Quote by - Merrill Markoe)
The work praises the man. (Quote by - Irish proverb)
The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame. (Quote by - Sharon Begley)
When one is pretending the entire body revolts. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Who I am is the best I can be. (Quote by - Leontyne Price)
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. (Quote by - Confucius)
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Only by ACCEPTANCE of the past, can you alter it. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have. (Quote by - Rhonda Britten)
The greatest success, is successful self ACCEPTANCE. (Quote by - Ben Sweet)
Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be. (Quote by - Maria Mitchell)
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. (Quote by - Marcus Aelius Aurelius)
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Be willing to have it so. ACCEPTANCE of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (Quote by - William James)
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, jr.)
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. (Quote by - Dwight L. Moody)
No one is expected to achieve the impossible. (Quote by - French proverb)
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. (Quote by - Maureen Dowd)
I would never belong to a group that would accept someone like me as a member. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
The first and the best victory is to conquer self. (Quote by - Plato)
Resolve to be thyself .. he who finds himself loses his misery!. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. (Quote by - J. A. Froude)
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. (Quote by - Samuel McChord Crothers)
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?. (Quote by - Hasdai Ibn Shaprut)
Accepting does not necessarily mean 'liking,' 'enjoying,' or 'condoning.' I can accept what is—and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)
I'm not OK, you're not OK and that's OK. (Quote by - William Sloane Coffin)
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed. (Quote by - William Bennett)
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them. (Quote by - Arlene Croce)
If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet ACCEPTANCE of what is. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. (Quote by - Pearl Bailey)
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole. (Quote by - Sally Field)
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true!. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. (Quote by - Wendy Wasserstein)
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. (Quote by - Sir Walter Raleigh)
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self- restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs. (Quote by - Source Unknown)
May God .. let me strive for attainable things. (Quote by - Pindar)
Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be. (Quote by - Emmanuel)
I am the only real truth I know. (Quote by - Jean Rhys)
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. (Quote by - Doris Mortman)
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
There is no such thing as a self- made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. (Quote by - George Shinn)
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their ACCEPTANCE of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. (Quote by - Tom Hopkins)
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales. (Quote by - Janet Flanner)
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. (Quote by - Lady Marguerite Blessington)
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. (Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. (Quote by - Henry James)
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. (Quote by - George Gurdjieff)
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (Quote by - William James)
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth. (Quote by - Joanna T. Steichen)
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.(Quote by - Dr. Karl Menninger)
A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?. (Quote by - Jane Wagner)
You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside. (Quote by - Vladimir Zworykin)
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies. (Quote by - Sarah Josepha Hale)
To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. (Quote by - David Grayson)
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. (Quote by - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
Conformity, humility, ACCEPTANCE... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. (Quote by - Robert Lindner)
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. (Quote by - Kay Boyle)
Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists, let alone its desirability, until the reactions of grown ups inform them. (Quote by - Leontine Young)
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self despiser. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. (Quote by - Anna Freud)
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. (Quote by - Ellen Goodman)
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. (Quote by - John Morley)
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism. (Quote by - Paula Nelson)
To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and are so stupid they don't even know it. All that is basically required is ACCEPTANCE of what exists. (Quote by - Colin Welch)
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves. (Quote by - Wilma Pearl Mankiller)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance. (Quote by - Joan Wester Anderson)
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. (Quote by - Maurice Maeterlinck)
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve. (Quote by - Emmanuel)
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself. (Quote by - William J. H. Boetcker)
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. (Quote by - Freya Stark)
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
People remain what they are, even when their faces fall to pieces. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
Ultimately, love is self approval. (Quote by - Sondra Ray)
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. (Quote by - Blum Ralph)
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. (Quote by - Cleveland Amory)
Then I though of reading - - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and nonpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get. (Quote by - Draper L. Kaufman Junior )
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. (Quote by - Martial)
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves regret for the past and fear of the future. (Quote by - Fulton Oursler)
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and ACCEPTANCE. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Be yourself. The world worships the original. (Quote by - Ingrid Bergman)
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. (Quote by - Ethel Barrett)
I wish they would only take me as I am. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer. (Quote by - Lucy Stone)
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him. (Quote by - James A. Pike)
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. (Quote by - John Gotti)
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's ACCEPTANCE of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. (Quote by - Phyllis Mcginley)
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Quote by - Melodie Beattie)
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. (Quote by - Jean Toomer)
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough. (Quote by - Denise Shekerjian)
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. (Quote by - Albert Ellis)
No person has the right to rain on your dreams. (Quote by - Marian Wright Edelman)
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. (Quote by - Bernard de Fontenelle)
Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson. (Quote by - Kathryn Murray)
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. (Quote by - Ethel Barrymore)
Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. (Quote by - Sara Jeannette Duncan)
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers. (Quote by - John P. Loughrane)
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
It is enough that I am of value to somebody today. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another. (Quote by - William Klassen)
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives. (Quote by - Bernie S. Siegel)
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self- esteem, and personal satisfaction. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance. (Quote by - J. Donald Walters)
A man needs self acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self. (Quote by - James A. Pike)
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self- chosen ignorance. (Quote by - Atwood H. Townsend)
Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. (Quote by - Lorraine Hansbury)
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. (Quote by - George R. Gissing)
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. (Quote by - Unknown)
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self. (Quote by - Elwyn B(rooks)
Love your self's self where it lives. (Quote by - Anne Sexton)
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Your real self - - the ''I am I'' - - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. (Quote by - Robert Collier)
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong. (Quote by - Raquel Welch)
For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. (Quote by - Henry Wadworth Longfellow)
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you. (Quote by - Dr. Robert Anthony.)
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest. (Quote by - Horace)
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her ACCEPTANCE. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he! (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
From self alone expect applause. (Quote by - Marion L. Burton)
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. (Quote by - Jerome Nathanson)
Accept your genius and say what you think. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson.)
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)
Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say. (Quote by - Brenda Ueland)
Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. (Quote by - Clark Moustakas)
