Acceptance Quotes

No rose without a thorn.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.

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

Woman must not accept she must challenge.

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.

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

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

Acceptance says True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblink-ingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything.

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.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.