Accept Someone Quotes

#1. Genuine acceptance is based on knowledge. You cant truly accept someone unless you know them.

Paul Ellis

#2. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.

Kylie Griffin

#3. Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

Lawrence Fagg

#4. Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else's insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of second-hand clothing, worn out and passed down.

Damien Echols

#5. I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don't want to be obliged to accept someone else's faith as a factor in my government.

Jack Germond

#6. Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak. Indeed, it takes a great deal of strength to accept someone else's acknowledgment of their mistakes.

Victoria Alexander

#7. To fully accept someone or something, means that you understand yourself enough to trust your own judgement and intuition, with this understanding full acceptance is inevitable and the next step possible.

Nityananda Das

#8. Love means nothing if you can't accept someone for their core values.

Katie Chapman

#9. Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

John Ortberg

#10. Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

Ellen Hopkins

#11. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

Maya Angelou

#12. Realize your strengths, accept your weaknesses, but never become someone you don't recognize.

Lindsay Chamberlin

#13. Go become someone's miracle! There's healing in your hand, in your voice, in your heart, in your eyes! YOU ARE A HEALER! You have the power to love, to accept, to encourage, to lift someone's spirit, to hug, to help, to listen, to care!! YOU ARE A MIRACLE!

Abhishek Kumar

#14. Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

Syesha Mercado

#15. My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Benjamin Disraeli

#16. But it's not really the love that I envy, it's the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can't not love you.

Cassia Leo

#17. At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen.

Jodi Picoult

#18. When I finally accept it, the truth stings. But there's no time to dwell on it, and there are only two choices: I can remind myself about someone who is not a part of my life, or I can leave him out of my notes to save myself from going through this all over again tomorrow.

Cat Patrick

#19. When did you stop caring for me? Certainly not before Thanksgiving. You certainly wouldn't accept a blow job from someone if you were thinking about breaking up with her.

Daria Snadowsky

#20. Loving someone isn't about what you can live with, accept or tolerate. For me, it's about the one person you can't live without. Too know that part of your life will never be the same without that one person being apart of it.

Piper Kay

#21. Don't try to be someone else; if you accept yourself in totality then you are perfect.

Nitin Yaduvanshi

#22. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.

Moby

#23. I guess when you loved someone, you were willing to accept all the pieces and factors and fragments that made them up, the sum of those adding up to the whole, and you were left with no choice but to wholly accept the total of that creation.

A.L. Jackson

#24. If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

Tony Abbott

#25. I admire someone like Beyonce. She has amazing commitment. I needed to accept that I probably did not fit into that forum. Doing that 'The Cherry Thing' record was a big part of finding that place where I belong, where I may shine, but I never doubted it was there.

Neneh Cherry

#26. At age nineteen I did not want to accept the possibility that a man's murder could be treated with the social significance of a hangnail that had been snipped off someone's finger.

James Lee Burke

#27. Some of us have deeper feelings for one over another. It can't be helped. It's chemistry. It's inherent. You can't make yourself love someone you don't and you can't make yourself stop loving someone you do.

Kate McGahan

#28. Forgiveness is a very curious thing, in that you must not only know how to forgive; but you must also know how to accept forgiveness. Both of these aspects are equally important. When someone forgives you - believe it.

C. JoyBell C.

#29. If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

Paulo Coelho

#30. In that moment I'm able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it's her.

Veronica Roth

#31. people can respect someone without love but its not possible to love someone without respect and if its so easy to cheat beloved then its not respect.and if not respect then there is no love.so if person whom you trust lots if cheat on you then accept they don't love you

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#32. I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.

Kellie Elmore

#33. The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.

Katherine Anne Porter

#34. When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Maya Angelou

#35. It's a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.

Scott Overton

#36. Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.

Nicholas Sparks

#37. True love and a mean spirit cannot coexist in a relationship. They are two opposing forces. Someone who is consistently and/or intentionally mean, in my opinion, is not able to accept or give unconditional love.

Michelle Brownlow

#38. Is it a shame that I can't accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else's world?

Henry Rollins

#39. Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

Amy Tan

#40. Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Fred Rogers

#41. [ ... ] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226

Stephanie Dowrick

#42. How often do we truly feel accepted?
Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something?
How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?
How do we gratefully accept rejection?
With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection.

Angelica Hopes

#43. Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice.

Stephen R. Covey

#44. It's hard to accept yourself as someone you don't desire / As someone you don't want to be.

Laura Marling

#45. Do not trust and depend on someone as a godfather but accept God the father of all fathers.

Osunsakin Adewale

#46. If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Madonna Ciccone

#47. When I talk to my neighbor, or to someone at church who doesn't accept that the planet is changing, I know that they don't know any better. They've been told this information by somebody they trust and it's not their fault. They've just never heard otherwise.

Katharine Hayhoe

#48. Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.

Robert D. Hales

#49. If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.

Jerrod Carmichael

#50. I'm so frightened that I shall be able to accept the notion that I have lost myself only if I imagine that someone is holding my hand.

Clarice Lispector

#51. If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

Steve Pavlina

#52. Loving someone wasn't about their perfection. It was about coming to accept every part of them, their good qualities at their weaknesses and flaws
looking on everything they were and loving it all.
As she looked on everything Jake was, right down to his center, she loved him.

Becky Wade

#53. Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

Frederick Lenz

#54. But that's the thing about judgment, if you give your initial opinion of someone too much weight and accept it as fact before really taking the time to really get to know someone, you risk missing out on a lot.

Hannah Hart

#55. Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.

S.A. Tawks

#56. Of course I can accept you for who you are. You are someone I need to change.

Randy Glasbergen

#57. Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

Maya Angelou

#58. When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.

Yvonne Pierre

#59. He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

Cecelia Ahern

#60. Someone can tell you all your life that you're inferior, but it doesn't matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it's then that the colonial malaise sets in like smallpox.

M.B. Dallocchio

#61. Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.

Noel Alumit

#62. It was then that I came to an important realization:as long as someone is beautiful,thin,wealthy,fun-loving or talented,we are happy to accept him or her at face value.We are not ever taught to look for-or care about-what lies beneath the surface.

Na'ima B. Robert

#63. And what about someone like Jack the Ripper? Does God love him too?" Archer stopped and held my gaze. "A man chooses what he becomes, and he must accept responsibility for his choices." "You didn't answer my question." "I don't know how to.

April White

#64. God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#65. Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.

Gene Doucette

#66. I've lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.

Lisa Kleypas

#67. Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them - and accept them - for who they were.

Tamera Alexander

#68. You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.

Warwick Thornton

#69. From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Cesare Pavese

#70. If you agree that bringing someone into existence can be bad for that person and if you also accept the argument that bringing someone into existence can't be good for that person, then this leads to a strange conclusion: being born could harm you but it couldn't help you.

Peter Singer

#71. Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.

Rajneesh

#72. With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Saul Bellow

#73. I have to figure out who I am before I can accept that I'm someone who deserves someone like you.

Cassandra Clare

#74. It's very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard

Luis Sepulveda

#75. Because seeing someone's heart ripped out, presumably for the first time, is something a person should accept naturally, like finding out there's no Santa Clause.

Katrina Monroe

#76. You should just accept who you are, flaws and all, because if you try to be someone you aren't, then eventually some turkey is going to shit all over your well-crafted facade, so you might as well save yourself the effort and enjoy your zombie books.

Jenny Lawson

#77. What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.

Radhanath Swami

#78. Maybe that was why he bothered me so much-I didn't want to accept that someone so lovely could really be that ugly.

Kelley R. Martin

#79. She refuses to take the easy way out by accepting the get-out-of-jail-free card that I offered her. She refuses to be allowed mistakes and though I know she will still make them because she is human, she will learn faster from them than someone who chooses to accept the excuses.

J.A. Redmerski

#80. It's difficult, sometimes, for me to understand that I have the power to hurt someone. You see, it requires me to accept that somebody might like me in the first place.

Alexis Hall

#81. But people didn't need to change to suit each other. They just needed to accept their differences. You could love someone just the way they were and still live in harmony together.

Madeline Sheehan

#82. It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#83. There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does ... and that someone is me

C.S. Lewis

#84. I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

Barack Obama

#85. When you believe something so strongly in your heart, never accept no for an answer! Keep pushing forward and prepare for that moment when someone tells you Yes!

Augusta DeJuan Hathaway

#86. I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.

Rick Santorum

#87. You can meet someone who's just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.

Winna Efendi

#88. We've learnt to appreciate and respect and love someone who's different from us. It is very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard, and you helped us to do that.

Luis Sepulveda

#89. She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else ...

Julia Quinn

#90. Dogs are lonesome creatures who needs a someone that will love him for eternity, Once they've found the one, He will protect it, believing that he is the only one who could accept him

Ammiel Josiah Monterde.

#91. I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.

Robert Dallek

#92. There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is ... me.

C.S. Lewis

#93. Ut she didn't understand and couldn't accept using that unhappiness as an excuse or rationale for being unfaithful. why didn't people just end it? if they wanted someone else, or something else, why not break it off clean first instead of cheating, lying, tolerating, just existing?

Nora Roberts

#94. Helping your weapon reach your target is easy. Watching someone accept that their life is over before it ever became something is not quite as simple.

Emm Cole

#95. I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.

Mario Balotelli

#96. You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.

Gary Chapman

#97. Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

Nizar Qabbani

#98. You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

George Bernard Shaw

#99. The sad truth is,
we are all grown ups and most of us are
matured.
However, not all of us are old enough to
accept that loving someone doesn't
guarantee you that they will love you in
return.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#100. You did everything you could, but sometimes all the love in the world from mothers and brothers isn't enough to help pull someone out of their nightmare. We just need to accept that things are what they are, and all the guilt and regret in the world can't change that.

Colleen Hoover