Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kennedy

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

Kate Upton

I want to enjoy life, and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.

Rabindranath Tagore

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

Peter Medawar

It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.

Peter McWilliams

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Paulo Coelho

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

Quincy Jones

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

Pierre Bayle

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Nathaniel Branden

When people are not accepting toward themselves they are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

Maria Mitchell

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

Paul Lowe

Acceptance and awareness are the keys to freedom.

Marty Nemko

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

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.

Leo Buscaglia

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Joyce Meyer

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

Joshua L. Liebman

Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life.

Joshua L. Liebman

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Lionel Trilling

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Linus Pauling

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.

Linda Lingle

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

John Knowles

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's our purpose to grow as human beings, to look within ourselves, to find and build upon that source of peace and understanding and strength that is our individual self. And then to reach out to others with love and acceptance and patient guidance in the hope of what we may become together.

Jody Williams

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Louise Hay

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

Lou Rawls

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

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.