Best accepting & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.”

Ifs Giving Faces Values Accepting Pieces Advice Thumbs One Piece Face Value

Author:Ernest Gaines

“If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.”

“You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You don't have to do anything special. Mostly, you have to be open to meeting face to face, and even dancing with, the truth that pertains to your life right now. You have to find a way to collect your fractured pieces, examine them, and the accept them as part of who you are. Spiritual practice is about transformation, but it's also, and more importantly, about working with what is.”

Knows Way Needs Faces Spiritual Accepting Practice Pieces Special Right Now Transformation Who You Are Dancing Meetings Face To Face Spiritual Practice

Author:angel Kyodo Williams

“To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.”

People Faces Accepting Reacting Deflation

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.”

Real Facts Faces Used Order Pleasure Accepting Violence Horror Directors Ugly Sensual Movie Sensual Pleasure

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.”

Home Faces House Rooms Accepting Feet Objects Cat Corners Familiar Folds Unfamiliar Cozy New Home Inanimate Objects

Author:Emily Carr

“Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, Youve got such a pretty face; why dont you lose some weight? Over the years Ive realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.”

Years Children Body Faces Used Certain Loses Accepting Issues Type Weight Fats Used To Be I Have Learned Realised Pretty Face

Author:Vidya Balan

“The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.”

Ifs Faces Accepting Democracy Criticism India Bases Election Tolerance

Author:Narendra Modi

“America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.”

Stills Country Government America Faces Accepting Steps Risk Obligation Free Country

Author:Patrick Bedard

“I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.”

Giving Trying Heart Said Faces Lost Loses Challenges Accepting Plans Goes On Give Me Stronger London Olympics London Olympics Give Me Strength

Author:Vijender Singh

“When you're facing all the issues of life and you don't know what to do, accept the fact that you are human. We all are. We don't have the capacity to understand Almighty God. But you know what? We know Jesus Christ. He's the wisdom of God. And He put His Holy Spirit in us. So having access to the Holy Spirit and Jesus, we can face the challenges of today with the wisdom of God.”

Knows Humans Facts Today Faces Spirit Jesus Christ Challenges Accepting Issues Holy Jesus Christ Capacity Access Holy Spirit Almighty Following Jesus Almighty God

Author:David Jeremiah

“I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.”

Looks I Can Faces Accepting Violence Rejects

Author:Wole Soyinka

“You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.”

Facts Faces Law Accepting Laws Of Life

Author:Erik Erikson

“It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.”

Men Should Faces Lying Values Passion Accepting Flesh Pursue Cheat Fog Lure Snares Face Value

Book:Jack London Six Pack

Source: Jack London Six Pack

“I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.”

Want Faces Accepting Difficulty Perseverance

Author:Ameen Rihani

“In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”

People Thinking Needs Ideas Country Moments Facts Body Faces Given Dark Accepting Enemy Worst Intellectual Journalist Officials Cowardice Orthodoxy Bans Worst Enemy

Author:George Orwell

“By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.”

Body Faces Accepting Becoming Lessons Aging Appearance Inevitable Liberating Deterioration Calmer Outer Appearance

Author:Wendy Lustbader

“Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.”

Faces Parent Difficult Natural Challenges Accepting Evolution Individuality Difficult Challenges

Book:The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers

Source: The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers

“... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.”

Ifs Believe Faces Values Situation Accepting Happened Warrior Unusual Face Value

Book:Tales of Power

Source: Tales of Power

“Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.”

Ifs Faces Loses Accepting Defeat Ease

Author:Pete Rose

“The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.”

Men Believe Long Earth Faces Accepting Saws Impossible Teaching Position Inspired Code Historian Emancipation Degrade Mosaics God Inspired

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred books, or because it has been believed by many, or because it has been handed down by your ancestors. Accept and live only according to what will enable you to see truth face to face.”

Has Beens Said Book Faces Accepting Teacher Written Sacred Ancestor Face To Face

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.”

Believe Facts Faces Courses Accepting Audience Capacity Labor Invention Limitation Believe In God Constraints

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.”

Feels Faces Values Three Accepting Humility Inability Three Things Traders Face Value

Author:Michael Steinhardt

Accepting Quotes

Related topics

Accepting Quotes