Acknowledging Quotes

#1. Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#2. Houses of Congress have ... requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.

George Washington

#3. God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

Stanley Hauerwas

#4. Enjoying the benefits of living and loving in community empowers us to meet strangers without fear and extend to them the gift of openness and recognition. Just by speaking to a stranger, acknowledging their presence on the planet, we make a connection.

Bell Hooks

#5. The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#7. Successful people use failures to sharpen their intuition by acknowledging mistakes for what they truly are - feedback.

Gordana Biernat

#8. I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

Donna Brazile

#9. Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

Marilyn Ferguson

#10. Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness.

Bryant McGill

#11. We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.

Michael Helm

#12. To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

Matthieu Ricard

#13. Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.

Tom Johnson

#14. Or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no evil left to fight in the world.

Anne Fortier

#15. I couldn't let him go.
I didn't want to let him go.
Letting him go meant acknowledging that he would never come back. And I just couldn't. I needed him too much.
I loved him too much.

Rachel Higginson

#16. Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

Dan Mangan

#17. Since the last question, also the first one, the quesiton of death, offers us the interesting alternatives of disintegrating ourselves by our own wills in proof of our "freedom," or the acknowledging that we owe a human life to this waking spell of existence, regardless of the void.

Saul Bellow

#18. No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

#19. What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I am well, I know not to mess with mess right away; I try to let silence and time work their magic. [p. 100]

Anne Lamott

#20. [Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories
entering into their feelings, validating their experiences
is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness.

William Deresiewicz

#21. As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply seemed like the best answer.

Roxane Gay

#22. Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us.

Jenny Cutler Lopez

#23. I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

Sheryl Sandberg

#24. That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, Not today.

Molly Ringle

#25. As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.

Wesley Eisold

#26. You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. What's saner than that?

Mindy McGinnis

#27. By acknowledging, accepting, and embracing our dark side, we create natural steam vents within ourselves. By providing an opening, we eliminate the worry about an explosion because we are allowing the pressure to be released in a safe and appropriate way.

Debbie Ford

#28. Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

Timothy Noah

#29. Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

Jack Canfield

#30. I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

Julian Baggini

#31. You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#32. We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this instead of acknowledging that suffering represents one of the strongest incentives of life, which is the base of human solidarity and what brings intensity to happiness.

Claudia Llosa

#33. I think it's far too easy to blame the American church without acknowledging that we are each part of the church and therefore responsible.

Francis Chan

#34. If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

Melina Marchetta

#35. Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

Gretchen Rubin

#36. I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.

David Coverdale

#37. There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you.

Kevin Systrom

#38. If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

William Friedkin

#39. While paying attention to positive and negative feedback is very important, it is not enough. What also matters is acknowledging and responding to this feedback. This is how you nurture your relationship with your audience.

Cendrine Marrouat

#40. When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can't control, we maintain our energy for the quest.

Sharon Salzberg

#41. To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

Ruskin Bond

#42. Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

Thomas Frank

#43. We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

Noreena Hertz

#44. In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

Steven Pinker

#45. I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

Benjamin Carson

#46. The Sanskrit word namaste means 'The spirit in me honors the spirit in you.' Whenever you first make eye contact with another person, say 'Namaste' silently to yourself. This is a way of acknowledging that the being there is the same as the being here.

Deepak Chopra

#47. What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

Lily Tomlin

#48. I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

David Rakoff

#49. Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Bo Lozoff

#50. When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

Srikumar Rao

#51. By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

Graham Speechley

#52. Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope).

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#53. Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward.

Davis Bunn

#54. If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

Ron Fournier

#55. The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Jon Voight

#56. We don't have to have all the answers and know everything. Life is about acknowledging the unknown and just living.

Raneem Kayyali

#57. As we said, consciousness is everything. Even now, acknowledging inequality begs one to do something about it--and that is a daunting, albeit righteous, responsibility.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#58. Acknowledging awesomeness is powerful, contagious, important and necessary!

Tanya Masse

#59. you can't grow without acknowledging that we are all made up from the weirdness that we try to hide from the rest of the world.

Jenny Lawson

#60. Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#61. I was trying to lose weight on the surface, but deeper, I was acknowledging that I'd been wrong for sixteen years and had to work to right myself. How do you walk away from all you've ever been?

Andie Mitchell

#62. By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.

Lisa J. Shultz

#63. With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.

Henry Mancini

#64. Just taking the time to put your mental health first, acknowledging that it deserves respect and care, and accepting help when you need it, can save your life. You are worth saving. And you are not alone.

A.J. Mendez Brooks

#65. A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them ...

Jane Porter

#66. The purpose of relationships is to help awaken you to the inherent balance existing within and around you, and to assist you in acknowledging your own magnificence and wholeness.

John F. Demartini

#67. Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance.

Ron Davies

#68. Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

Sheryl Sandberg

#69. Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.

Silken Laumann

#70. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.

Amber Kizer

#71. For all these reasons, one cannot recount the history of modern science without acknowledging the crucial importance of Christianity. But this does not mean that Christianity and Christianity alone produced modern science,

Ronald L. Numbers

#72. By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Albert Ellis

#73. Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#74. If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

John Stott

#75. Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.

Bronnie Ware

#76. How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?

Namsoon Kang

#77. It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

Zachary Quinto

#78. None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

Harvey MacKay

#79. He liked to refer to his whiteness the way all white liberals did: only acknowledging it when he felt oppressed by it, otherwise pretending it didn't exist.

Brit Bennett

#80. I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.

David Hyde Pierce

#81. True Fans are, loyal & unconditional
(Support deserves acknowledging)
Never let your success get the best of you!!! T.B

Tawana Beecham

#82. The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way to shift that perspective is through gratitude, by acknowledging and appreciating the positives.

Bronnie Ware

#83. The Strategy of Safeguards requires us to take a very realistic - perhaps even fatalistic - look at ourselves. But while acknowledging the likelihood of temptation and failure may seem like a defeatist approach, it helps us identify, avoid, and surmount our likely stumbling blocks.

Gretchen Rubin

#84. I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.

Keanu Reeves

#85. When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#86. The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility and the striving towards God are the fundamental virtues of a Christian.

John Of Shanghai And San Francisco

#87. His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

Albert Camus

#88. I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

Mike Wallace

#89. Dear Lord Jesus, I never tire of acknowledging Thy greatness in my life. Today may I lift Thee up so that all may see the greatness of Thee. Amen.

A.W. Tozer

#90. We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

James F. Amos

#91. One of the greatest challenges of becoming myself has been acknowledging that I'm not who I thought I was supposed to be or who I always pictured myself being.

Brene Brown

#92. I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

Roxane Gay

#93. Acknowledging the problem is healthy, fearing it is not.

Karla Perry

#94. She looked at him and saw that his nostrils were slightly flared. In other respects he seemed completely at ease, acknowledging cheerfully the greetings of the Casino functionaries.

Ian Fleming

#95. We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

John Green

#96. The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Shunryu Suzuki

#97. In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to recognize that power, within the family and elsewhere, can be used vindictively, and that it is not only powerful men who abuse women; women with power may also abuse other women.

Sheila Kitzinger

#98. Concealment, my dear Maria, is the foe of tranquility: however I may err in future, I will never be disingenuous in acknowledging my errors. To

Fanny Burney

#99. Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

Anne Lamott

#100. Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it.
And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

Seth Godin