Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.
~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
~ Saint Francis De Sales
Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.
~ Charles A. Hawley
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.
~ Michel De Montaigne
Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
~ Jean Anouilh
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
To find the good life you must become yourself.
~ Dr. Bill Jackson
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
~ José Ortega Y Gasset
Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.
~ Martial
Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.
~ Ruth P. Freedman
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
~ Axel Munthe
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
~ Goldie Hawn
Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.
~ Sara Jeannette Duncan
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
~ Lucille Ball
Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
~ Samuel Mcchord Crothers
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
~ Barbara Walters
A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?
~ Jane Wagner
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
~ Horace
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
~ Nicolas De Chamfort
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
~ Sir Walter Raleigh
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.
~ Kathryn Murray
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
~ Johann Von Goethe
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
~ Jean Vanier
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
~ Anonymous
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
~ William Feather
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
~ Albert Camus
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
~ Cleveland Amory
Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
We cannot all be masters.
~ William Shakespeare
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
~ John Morley
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
~ Lin Yutang
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
~ French Proverb
A hero is a man who does what he can.
~ Romain Rolland
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
