Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Michael Korda

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Marianne Williamson

Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.

Marianne Williamson

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Publilius Syrus

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Portia de Rossi

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

Nelson Mandela

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

Oprah Winfrey

As you become more clear about who...

Kelly Clarkson

And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.

Leontyne Price

Who I am is the best I can be.

Leigh Hunt

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Paul Brunton

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Paul Cezanne

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

There seems to be acceptance that the big three central banks envisage further tightening. The G-10 appears confident about the pace of economic expansion.

Carl Rogers

The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, in which my real feelings are evident; by an acceptance of this other person as a separate person with value in his own right; and by a deep empathic understanding which enables me to see his private world through his eyes.

Wayne White

There is such militancy and suspicion within the Sunni Arab community that acceptance (of the election results) on the part of certain leaders would diminish their credibility and, in some cases, place cooperative leaders in very real danger of assassination.

Ramalinga Raju

As we step into the new fiscal year, we believe that the demand environment will continue to remain buoyant and there is an increasing acceptance in the market towards the global delivery model.

Emilio Castillo

Acceptance. Prayer. Health. Give and take. Patience. Love. Just like it is with anybody else in the world, except we're together on a bus.

Acceptance of this offer will see the club move from strength to strength under the same management and with a simplification of ownership and increased commitment.

Acceptance of the charter won't open any magic doors, but it would demonstrate that the government won't be moved by violence. If it fails, it will be a setback.

Acceptance into the All State band, chorus or orchestra is the only criteria for this honor.

Acceptance by the market has lagged behind expectations.

Ralph Merkle

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Shana Alexander

In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

Serena Williams

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

Michael Polanyi

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Michael Learned

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Sebastian Junger

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

Seth Godin

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

Seth Godin

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

Tom Hiddleston

Honestly, I’m happiest when I’m with my best friend and we’re just laughing about life and times, there is nothing greater than friendship in this world. And that kind of sort of mutual acceptance ; to feel known and understood by people and to feel like you know and understand them back is all you can ask for.