William Hazlitt Quotes

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

There's just some things you can't change.

If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

There's a lot of idiots in the world, so live with it.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.