Accepting Quotes - Page 9

• People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.

  Rajneesh

  Responsibility, People, Firsts

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• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  Fergie

  Girl, Trying, Lines

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• Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

  Robert Breault

  Change, Mean, Want

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• The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

  Robert Breault

  Parent, Bruises, Hardest

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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• I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

  Paula Cole

  Cities, Bigs, Versions

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• So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

  Thucydides

  Truth, Men, Hands

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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• As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

  Elton John

  Unhappy, Radio, Pops

  "Elton John confirms film project based on his life" by Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.

  Martin Amis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Funny Things

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• I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Cute, Fall, Age

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• The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Views

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• One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

  Jonathan Raban

  Family, Acceptance, Brave

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.

  Tom Wicker

  Philosophy, Party, Winning

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• The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Judging, Judgment

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Leonard Felder (1996). “Making Peace with Yourself”, Random House LLC

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• The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.

  Bernie Siegel

  Miracle, Mind, Trying

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.34, Random House

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• Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows more about what we need than we do. Sometimes when we pray, we get what we want. Sometimes we get what we need. Accept both answers-the yes's and the something else's-with heartfelt gratitude. Then look around and see what your lesson and gift is.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Prayer, Grateful

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• Taking responsibility nurtures self-confidence, and self-confidence can help you to be a more interesting and attractive person. And best of all, the more you believe in yourself, the more power you possess to attract your good. . . . Those who speak constantly of their right to freedom must understand that an irresponsible act does not bring greater freedom but only greater bondage to the action. One law of life says, "If we are to enjoy freedom, we must accept responsibility." A great awareness is expressed in this statement.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Responsibility, Self Confidence

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• What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parent, Sometimes

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• My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Heart, Ignorance

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• I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!

  Louise Hay

  Arms, Wide, Deserve

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

  W. H. Auden

  Moving, Mean, Men

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

  Euripides

  Destiny, Men, Tears

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Discovery, America

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  Harold Bloom

  Finals, May, Form

  "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages". Book by Harold Bloom, 1994.

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