Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

E. B. White

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

E. B. White

There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want.

Douglas Hofstadter

Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.

Amy Ray

Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

The convergence of standards will happen regardless of the formation of the alliance. But it does show that standards are converging and that their rate of acceptance is increasing.

Albert Einstein

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Alfred Russel Wallace

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.

Alexander Lowen

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Alexander McCall Smith

Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

Alexander Pope

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Alex Haley

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Debbie Ford

The world mirrors yourself back to you. If you love, nourish, and appreciate yourself internally it will show up in your external life. If you want more love, give more love to yourself. If you want acceptance, accept yourself.

Debbie Ford

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

Drew Barrymore

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Donna Air

I never say never to anything. I don't really think it would be for me, but I never put limitations on myself. Part of getting older is acceptance, though, so I'd like to think I'll age gracefully. But if other women get confi dence from having surgery, then I would never judge.

Dorothy Day

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

Dalai Lama

In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

Doc Severinsen

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

Amy Carmichael

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.

Andrew Solomon

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Czeslaw Milosz

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

David Foster Wallace

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

Dave Brubeck

Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

Dan Brown

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Dan Brown

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

Anthony Hopkins

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

Alicia Silverstone

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

Alice Schwarzer

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

Alice Walker

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

Anne Lamott

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

Ann Voskamp

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.

Albert Ellis

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.