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 has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of...

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of...

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...

Nothing else matters much; not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual...

Nothing else matters much; not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual...

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...

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he...

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he...

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it...

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it...

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.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for...

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for...

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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

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

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

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

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

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get...

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get...

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure...

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure...

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will...

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will...

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It...

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It...

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe,...

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe,...

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to...

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to...

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...