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Quotes About Acceptance

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]
~ Plautus
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
~ Plautus
They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
~ Omar Sharif
A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
~ Rajneesh
There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.
~ Rajneesh
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.
~ Randy Newman
The married man has all but eliminated that worry from his life, simply because his wife knows all about him: the good, the bad, and the tiny.
~ Ray Romano
I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?
~ Rebecca Stead
Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.
~ Rick Warren
I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.
~ Rob Brydon
It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent
~ H. L. Mencken
Man plans. God laughs.
~ Harlan Coben
I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
~ Henry David Thoreau
I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Make not thyself the judge of any man.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
~ Herman Melville
Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.
~ Herman Melville
God is liberal of color; so should man be.
~ Herman Melville
You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.
~ Hillary Clinton
Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.
~ Ihara Saikaku