Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Winston Churchill

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Wilma Mankiller

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

Will Rogers

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Zachary Quinto

I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance.

Zhuangzi

The creature born is the creature dying.

Zhuangzi

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

William Hazlitt

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.

William Hazlitt

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

William Hazlitt

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Wendell Berry

No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

W. Somerset Maugham

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

Wayne Dyer

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

Wayne Dyer

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Wayne Dyer

Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

Walter Cunningham

In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.

Wayne Pacelle

People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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.

Salman Rushdie

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.

Joss Whedon

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

Koichi Tanaka

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

Kofi Annan

If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Lin Yutang

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Lena Horne

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

Therese of Lisieux

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

Tess Gerritsen

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

Terry Gilliam

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Kurt Lewin

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.