Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Mitchell

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.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Haruki Murakami

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Harlan Ellison

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

M. Scott Peck

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

M. Scott Peck

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

M. Scott Peck

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

Bill Ferguson

You create the experience of love by giving the gift of acceptance and appreciation.

Meg Ryan

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Maxwell Maltz

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

Max von Laue

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Jim Boeheim

I'm going to be very nervous, ... You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

Kevin Cramer

One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Glenn Close

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Malcolm Fraser

Sometimes the solutions will require acknowledgement of past mistakes, and acceptance of insights for which none of our learning has prepared us.

Leontyne Price

Who I am is the best I can be.

Leigh Hunt

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Neal A. Maxwell

The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.

Neal A. Maxwell

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

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.

Noam Chomsky

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

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.

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.

Louis L'Amour

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Louis L'Amour

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

Mary Cassatt

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.