Accepted Quotes

1348 quotes by 1122 authors

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men… — George S. Patton
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. — Dave Pelzer
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done… — Lou Rawls
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. — Little Richard
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they… — Rainer Maria Rilke
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned… — Tom Robbins
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. — Jane Roberts
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. — John D. Rockefeller
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is… — Mark Rothko
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or… — Salman Rushdie
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. — Bertrand Russell
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it,… — Francoise Sagan
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without… — George Sand
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of… — George Santayana
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' — George Saunders
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. — Jessica Savitch
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Erwin Schrodinger
We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the… — Ariel Sharon
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental… — Martin Sheen

Who Wrote These Accepted Quotes

1,122 authors contributed a total of 1,348 Accepted Quotes, led by these top contributors: