Best accepting & knows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.”

Source: The land of the rising yen: Japan

“I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.”

Knows Feels Kind Girl Actors Accepting Comfortable Hopefully More Time Just Being

Author:Brie Larson

“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.”

Knows Mean Responsibility Accepting Greater Teacher Our Lives Streets Kings Yoga Tasks Enlightened Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it ... I couldn’t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know I’m as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don’t see why I shouldn’t.”

People Knows Way Feels Bigs Girl Accepting Boys Heard Capable Bent

Author:Dusty Springfield

“I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.”

Knows Answers Accepting Approach Scientist Medical Cards Quackery

Author:Dean Ornish

“Dear God, please help me to love and value myself, and treat myself with loving care. Please help me to know that I deserve happiness (as we all do), and that I have the right to change my life in healthful ways. Thank you for supporting me as I stand in my power, strength, and love in my relationships and in my career, and for helping others to accept and support the changes that I need to make.”

“Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference”

Knows Enough Differences Accepting Smart Being Smart

Author:Wally Lamb

“Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself.”

Knows Accepting Advice Know Yourself Better Than You

Author:Sonia Friedman

“Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.”

“We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.”

People Ifs Knows Choices Fighting Winning Responsibility Accepting Rights Can't Win

Author:Susan Polis Schutz

“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”

Knows May Ends Whole Accepting Know How Our Lives Streets Wind Mere Currents Conviction Determined Agents Definite Invitations Rejecting Free Agents

Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.”

Knows Certain Accepting Youth Rejects

Author:Jean Cocteau

“If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.”

Ifs Knows Names Nations Accepting Proud Capable England Shame France Beloved Germany Patriotism Accept Me Fatherland

Book:Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

Source: Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.”

Ifs Knows Self Accepting Financial Self Worth Psychiatrist Planners Net Worth

Author:Suze Orman

“Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane Katrina that hit the US south-western coast led to casualties, left homeless dozens of thousands of US citizens and inflicted a strong damage to the economy of this region. I ask you to convey my condolences to the next of kin of those killed,.”

“As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.”

Knows May Ideas Facts Views Accepting Mathematical Minorities Mathematician

Author:Abraham Robinson

“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

Knows Art Made Character Effort Situation Accepting Greater Acceptance Ordinary Art Is Strive Everyday Incline

Author:Lawren Harris

“If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.”

Ifs Knows World Should Looks Lasts Courses Nature Accepting Knowing Environment Risk Environmental Our World Chemicals Frightening Poisonous

Author:Rachel Carson

“Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.”

Knows Accepting Buddhism Increase Limitation Purity Impurity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.”

Ifs Knows Men World Wells Long Powerful Accepting Weapons Conscience Deserve Ashamed Nonviolence Defeated Oppressors

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.”

Knows Littles Has Beens Lost Given Christ Accepting Grace Population Portions Sheep Stolen Fullness Redeemed Lost Ones

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”

Knows Men Has Beens Art Done Use Seems Able Artist Born Known Accepting Ordinary Lifetime Rejects Afternoon Now And Then Great Art Great Artist Ordinary Man

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.”

Knows Accepting Stage Missing Walking Perks Prom Diploma

Author:Cheyenne Kimball

“We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.”

Knows World Care Turns Accepting Identity Comment Places In The World Tease Numbness Foibles Surrounded By Friends

Author:Alain de Botton

“If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Accepting Citizens Definitions Idiot Greek Germany American Citizens

Author:C. Wright Mills

“Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.”

Knows Giving Problem Political Term Accepting Moral Issues Trouble Giving Up Understood Not Giving Up Autonomy Ethos Practicality Do Not Give Up History Making

Book:C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

Source: C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

“A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.”

Ifs Knows Humans Fall Human Beings Accepting Grace Equal Neighbor Severity

Author:Stefan Zweig

“I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. But I need you to understand that I will always choose Creativity over you.”

Knows Needs Wells Enough Jobs Asks Speak Voice Accepting Creativity Silent Over You Leaving Me Need You Me Alone Love And Respect I Need You Leave Me Alone Never Leave Me

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

“Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.”

Knows Nature Compassion Accepting Excuse Punishment No Excuses No Compassion

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.”

Knows Mind Doe Use Government Force Accepting Know How Limits Rate Appeals Spontaneous Adaptation Looking Forward Adjustment Apprehension Accepting Change

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.”

People Knows Would Be Accepting Atheist

Author:Ron Reagan

“Anybody who has ever done anything knows that, when you believe, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to keep finding a way to align your vision with other people who will receive and accept your vision. And when the time is right, if it is for you, it will show itself, if you believe.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Believe Matter Done Shows Accepting Vision Findings If You Believe

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I often ask people if they would like to give their organs when they pass on, and they say "Well, I'm not so sure, I don't know." And I said, "Well, would you accept one if you needed one?" "Well, yeah, sure." And I say "Well, there you go - where do you get them from?".”

People Ifs Knows Giving Wells Said Asks Accepting Needed Yeah Organs

Author:Larry Hagman

“You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.”

Knows Should Country Seems Today America Nations Challenges Leader Accepting Moral Creativity Optimism Great Nations Optimism And Hope

Author:Tom Vilsack

“Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.”

Knows Asks Causes Accepting Risk Ignorance Arrogance Reasoning Fallibility

Book:Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam

Source: Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam

“To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.”

Knows Mean Doe Spiritual Attitude Accepting Childhood

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”

“And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.”

Knows Trying Believe Doe Done Today I Believe Causes Challenges Accepting Weakness Who I Am Ashamed Rip Shameful Strength And Weakness Tweak

Book:Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth

Source: Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth

“Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship. ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.”

Ifs Knows Want Values Asks Accepting Path My Friends True Friend Narrow Path

Author:Robert D. Hales

“The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.”

People Knows Kind Reason Accepting Atheism Ready Positive Atheism Vulnerable Reason Why Guidance Airports Sects Perplexed

Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.”

Knows Made Belief Religious Accepting Clear Atheism Positive Atheism Accepted Appeals Request Religious Belief

Author:William Blackstone

“Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.”

Knows Needs Mind Emotion Accepting Buddhism Ridiculous Drains Being Content

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.”

“Vibrate on a frequency that embraces the gifts, growth, and change of others. Accept challenges & failures as part of your journey. Find your light and let it shine. Know your purpose.”

Knows Light Purpose Growth Challenges Accepting Journey Embrace Shining Frequency Vibrate Change And Growth

Author:Casar Jacobson

“Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. Why does he kill these 22 people? If they say, What difference does it make? I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.”

People Ifs Knows Doe Character Jobs Three Differences Accepting Folks

Author:Powers Boothe

“I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.”

Knows Way Want Done Challenges Accepting Careers Roles Holy Smoke

Author:Kate Winslet

“I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.”

Knows Way Feels Ideas Turns Accepting Know How Projects Decided Best Way Good Ideas Ambiguity

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.”

Thinking Knows World Should Firsts Form Names Given Poor Existence Accepting Poverty First Time Conclusion Awards Poorest Homage

Author:Mother Teresa

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