Acceptance Quotes - Page 4

When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

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

Whoopi Goldberg

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Anonymous

I am the only real truth I know.

Jean Rhys

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

William Hazlitt

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

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.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself all your annoying habits are gone!

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Elizabeth Taylor

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.

Thomas à Kempis

In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

Theo E. Colborn

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Emily Dickinson

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Dwight L. Moody

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

Michel de Montaigne

You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

William J. H. Boetcker

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.

Susan B. Anthony

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

Stewart E. White

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.

J. C. F. von Schiller

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Kay Boyle

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Ken Keyes

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

G.K. Chesterton

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

Henry S. Haskins

There is no sense in the struggle but there is no choice but to struggle.

Boys this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that God will help and you will come out well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's mother

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

There are things I can't force. I must adjust.

CM. Ward

Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.

Euripides

Wood may remain ten years in the water but it will never become a crocodile.

Congolese proverb

No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.

Russian proverb

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?

Bible

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.

Louis Kronenberger

Woman must not accept she must challenge.

Margaret Sanger

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Competition is about passion for perfection and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

Mariah Burton Nelson

Better to accept whatever happens.

Horace

If we cannot do what we will we must will what we can.

Yiddish Proverb

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

Boethius

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

What cannot be avoided t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

William Shakespeare

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

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