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Accepting Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
- Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
- The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
- If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of…
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
- The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
- Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why…
- Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
- The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you…
- Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion.…
- Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or…
- He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely…
- This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets…
- Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.
- Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
- Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
- Accept your genius and say what you think.
More Accepting Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just… — Amy Adams
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the… — Antonio Banderas
- Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. — Tyra Banks
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams