Acceptance Quotes

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

~ Pindar

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

~ Graham Greene

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

~ William Styron

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

~ Bernard De Fontenelle

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

~ Edward Everett Hale

I hope to work support my children and die quietly without pain.

~ Sean Connery

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

~ J. A. Froude

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.

~ Dr. Harriet Braiker

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

~ May Sarton

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

~ Hugh Prather

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

~ Alexander The Great

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

~ Bertolt Brecht

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

~ Helen Keller

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.

~ Margaret Fontey

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

~ Sue Atchley Ebaugh

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

~ Anna Freud

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

~ Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

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

~ William Hazlitt

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

~ Marie Leneru

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

~ Barbara De Angelis

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

~ Ursula K. Leguin

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

~ Sherwood Anderson

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

~ Wilma Pearl Mankiller

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

~ William Hazlitt

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.

~ Dr. Karl Menninger

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

~ William Klassen

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

~ Colleen Dewhurst

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

~ James A. Pike

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

~ Anthony Trollope

To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.

~ Anonymous

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

~ Nathaniel Branden

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

~ Ethel Barrymore

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

~ Mack Mcginnis

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.

~ Charlotte P. Gilman

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

~ Belle Livingstone

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

~ Edwin H. Chapin

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

~ Eartha Kitt