Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Albee

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Eckhart Tolle

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

Jordin Sparks

My whole journey has been about self acceptance.

Jonathan Swift

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Napoleon Hill

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Lucy Stone

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

M. F. K. Fisher

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

Mahatma Gandhi

The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

Freya Stark

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Henry James

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

Helen Clark

It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

John Henrik Clarke

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

At the present time I am trying to win acceptance for a program of support for scientific computing in universities from industry and government.

That's a steady growth of around 10% a year. And it's a reason for quiet satisfaction. The UK may not have been leading the way on this, and it would have been nice to have moved faster, but gradual acceptance is interesting too.

Ayn Rand

It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.

Ayn Rand

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind...

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

A rehabilitation centre for these children is needed but acceptance in the society should be the first step to rehabilitation.

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Craig Conway

PeopleSoft's strong performance in this challenging economic environment is a direct result of continued market acceptance of PeopleSoft 8 enterprise applications,