Andre Gide Quotes

The changes were inevitable and one has to accept them gracefully

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

Better bow than break.

We must do as we may when we may not do as we would.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."