Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Blythe

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Rupert Friend

I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

Rupert Friend

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

Tony Hawk

Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.

Thomas Merton

I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

Tom Waits

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

Shirley MacLaine

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Shakti Gawain

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

Shakti Gawain

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Shakti Gawain

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

Steven Pinker

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Sue Monk Kidd

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Robert Browning

I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.

Sydney J. Harris

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

Sydney J. Harris

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

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

Katy Perry

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.

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.

Tom Petty

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

Simone de Beauvoir

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simon Sinek

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

Simon Sinek

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

Simon Sinek

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Rem Koolhaas

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Sri Chinmoy

True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.