Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best.

Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Topics: Acceptance Quotes, Advice Quotes, Limits Quotes, Self-respect Quotes, Success Quotes

God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get...

God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get...

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until...

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until...

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life;...

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life;...

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for...

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for...

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't...

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't...

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than...

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than...

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life;...

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life;...

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what...

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what...

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but...

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but...

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that...

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that...

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but...

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but...

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country...

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country...

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.