Acceptance Quotes - Page 38

• Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

  Cyril Falls

  Tradition, Ready, Unfamiliar

  Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”

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• The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Attitude, Self Esteem

  "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

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• There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Jewels, Three Things

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

  Lady Gaga

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Thinking

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• In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Life, Comfort, Affliction

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

  David Gerrold

  Loving Life, Interesting, Popcorn

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• Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

  William Glasser

  Quality, World, Clients

  Myrtle Beach Conference on Reality Therapy, March 28, 2008.

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• The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work, Men, Perfection

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• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Morning, Ideas

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• 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

  Martha Graham

  Maturity, Years, Age

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• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Men

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

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• What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

  Anne Hathaway

  Happens

  "Anne Hathaway's Relationship Dealbreaker? Fraud." by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Creating, Peers, World

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• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

  Ivan Illich

  Attitude, Believe, Blessing

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• In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Clouds, Perspective

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1594, Library of Alexandria

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• It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

  Henry James

  Thinking, Self, People

  1879 Hawthorne, ch.6.

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• I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Sad, Flower, Ex Boyfriend

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• Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Lying, Society

  1967 Speech at the Christian leadership conference, Atlanta, 16 Aug.

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• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  Eartha Kitt

  Thinking, Recipes, Opinion

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• The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Husband, Fighting, Trying

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• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Education, Business

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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