Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Plant

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

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.

Virginia Gildersleeve

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

William Cowper

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

William Glasser

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

Voltaire

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

Voltaire

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

William Styron

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

Walter Savage Landor

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

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.

Winston Churchill

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.

William Wordsworth

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

William James

A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.

Will Durant

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

Samuel P. Huntington

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

Wietse Venema

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

Whoopi Goldberg

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

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.