Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Sam Cooke

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

William Hazlitt

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Zig Ziglar

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

Satoru Iwata

I really don't think that there's going to be a lot of acceptance by current customers of the $60 price tag.

George Canyon

If I won, I'd probably go unconscious, ... Which would be bad, because then there would be no acceptance speech.

In Cuenca, Ecuador's third largest city, bus transportation is a vital lifeline for many of its citizens. The municipalities in Ecuador are proactive in their deployment of new technologies that enhance core services. The selection of Panther Trak as the GPS device of choice is further evidence of the market acceptance of our technology and we anticipate additional orders for similar uses.

In most cases, country research coordinators are seeing a shift in the cultural acceptance of girls (toward tobacco use). It's OK for girls to be seen smoking. There's no definitive data but it's an observation.

Jim Boeheim

I'm going to be very nervous, ... You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

Jeremy Foley

I learned a long time ago, when it comes to discipline you don't get 100 percent acceptance of what you do.

The Merrill Lynch name has...inhibited broader acceptance of our retail products. This new brand is the linchpin of our effort to make our industry-leading products and services available to an even broader range of advisers and investors.

The issue is whether a collection of server appliances performing the same functions as one multi-purpose server can be administered as one computer -- inputting user names only once, managing the network from one management console, etc. Until that happens, it won't reach a high level of acceptance because of administrative costs.

Their acceptance speeches are often proof of what lousy actors they are. They're often thanking people we know they sparred with all over the place.

The first thing I was impressed with was how well the guys honored Drake with their acceptance speeches. I thought it was one of the finest displays of feeling, emotion, appreciation and brevity that I had seen. The other part was how strong their feelings were for Drake. They spoke of their gratitude for the education they got here and how they were treated, things having nothing to do with basketball.

The Company continues to invest in a number of key areas including product, technology and our corporate infrastructure. We continue to see progress with our Proactive Risk Manager solution and see more interest in the market for payments convergence across the enterprise and for specific needs like transaction settlement. We believe our ongoing investments in BASE24-es are paying off. We signed a new license with a top bank in Pakistan and received customer acceptance from another BASE24-es user. We now have five stand-alone BASE24-es clients live in production environments running on a range of hardware platforms. We continue to validate the performance and efficiency of BASE24-es on multiple hardware platforms.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. Just say it. With love. All else will take care of itself.

Neale Donald Walsch

Those who love others grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high toleration and acceptance of others are those who have a high toleration and acceptance of themselves. You cannot show another a part of you that you cannot show yourself. Therefore, begin where all growth, where all evolution, where all love must begin; with the person in the mirror.

Neale Donald Walsch

You are okay just the way you are... and so is everybody else. Sometimes we want the kind of acceptance that we are not willing to give. Yet life is a two-way street, and we do so much better when we send to others what we want them to send to us. Just a gentle reminder today that you are wonderful, and the person right next to you is, too!

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.

Jacob Bronowski

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

The increasing demand for smart media reflects the growing acceptance of RFID applications in business today. In all these applications, it is critical that smart media transmit data reliably. Zebra's strategy is to offer a broad selection of high quality, tested media, so that customers can rely on us to not only provide reliable and robust printer/encoder hardware, but also equally dependable smart media that matches the performance of our hardware.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

Friedrich Schiller

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.

George Gissing

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

Luigi Pirandello

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.