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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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;...

Boys are just like bubble gum: Sweet in the beginning but dull at the end.

Boys are just like bubble gum: Sweet in the beginning but dull at the end.

When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.

When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.