Acceptance Quotes

"Accept life, and you must accept regret." Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes "Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits." James Baldwin Quotes Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have. Art Buchwald Quotes "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." Albert Camus Quotes Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. Wayne Dyer Quotes Accept your genius and say what you think. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." Mahatma Gandhi Quotes "Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else." André Gide Quotes Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. Arthur Gordon Quotes "The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." Carl Gustav Jung Quotes "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." Carl Gustav Jung Quotes "History will never accept difficulties as an excuse." John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness. Joshua Loth Liebman Quotes Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can. Thomas Merton Quotes "The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt." Ayn Rand Quotes "We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are." Harry S Truman Quotes "I wish they would only take me as I am." Vincent van Gogh Quotes When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. Marcel Achard Quotes The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance. Joan Wester Anderson Quotes It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle Quotes 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. Richard Willard Armour Quotes Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Saint Francis of Assisi Quotes Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept. Carl Lotus Becker Quotes Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth. Sir Walter Besant Quotes Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. Dr. Joyce Quotes Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place. Gene Brown Quotes It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore. Alex Carey Quotes You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk. Rosalynn Smith Carter Quotes Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. Karen Casey Quotes As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett Quotes There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past. Noam Chomsky Quotes Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion Quotes The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life Is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion Quotes It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing. Jim Dodge Quotes Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does! Richard Exely Quotes There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. John Quotes Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. Erich Fromm Quotes Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season. Robert Lee Frost Quotes 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. Robert Lee Frost Quotes The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control. Allen Ginsberg Quotes Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become.Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow. Adam R. Gwizdala Quotes Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow. Adam R. Gwizdala Quotes I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted. Rena Harmon Quotes When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. Napolean Hill Quotes Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage. John Andrew Holmes, Jr. Quotes In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. Horace Quotes Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. William James Quotes Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness. Amy Hillyard Jensen Quotes When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche--grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted--cannot easily receive a lesson. Roger John Quotes What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far. Erica Mann Jong Quotes Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God. Richard Jordan Quotes Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers Quotes If you can't accept losing, you can't win. Vincent Thomas Quotes The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. J. Russel Lynes Quotes You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides Quotes Listening is a form of accepting. Stella Terill Mann Quotes It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. W(illiam) Somerset Maugham Quotes It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W(illiam) Somerset Maugham Quotes The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes Always accept good Fortune with grace and humility. Mark L. Mika Quotes Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller Quotes There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow. Christopher Darlington Morley Quotes Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. Edward R(oscoe) Murrow Quotes We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. Jose Narosky Quotes Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Neibuhr Quotes God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. Oliver L. North Quotes The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. Ayn Rand Quotes