Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.

Tim Roth

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Kurt Lewin

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.

Neil Postman

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

Marcus Aurelius

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

Pema Chodron

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

Pema Chodron

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

Pearl Bailey

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Phyllis Rose

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

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

James Anthony Froude

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Jacques Monod

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that eveloution owes its generally progressive cource, its successive conquests, and the impresssion it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to 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.

M. Scott Peck

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