Top 100 Acceptance Of Quotes
#1. Liberation is our continual and fresh acceptance of truth as the path of life set before us.
Pope Benedict XVI
#2. It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
Louise Bogan
#3. The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience. This
Mark Manson
#4. To see the divine in others, we have to love. Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness. This oneness comes from our conscious acceptance of his reality as it is.
Sri Chinmoy
#5. The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
John Henrik Clarke
#6. I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
Jacqueline Bisset
#7. None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
John Stott
#9. Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
T. S. Eliot
#10. Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#11. People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.
Billy Graham
#12. What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise - is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.
Barbara Gittings
#13. We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#14. Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
Brian Tracy
#15. People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society.
Pope Francis
#16. I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.
Bob Balaban
#17. We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
Victoria Osteen
#18. Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#19. While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.
Jack E. Weller
#20. As writers like to remark, books are never finished, they are merely abandoned. This acceptance of necessary expediency leads to the increasing doubt and anxiety characteristic of the last hours before the first significant encounter with reality: the separation event.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#22. The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.
Henry Miller
#23. The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
Edward Abbey
#24. The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#25. One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.
Zig Ziglar
#26. The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.
Amina Mama
#27. That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!
Robert McCloskey
#28. The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.
S.A. Tawks
#29. There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,
Denis Hayes
#30. Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Arthur Rubinstein
#31. conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic. Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.
Lily King
#32. One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham
Jim Harrison
#33. There's peace in acceptance. Death in it, always. Inevitable. With the acceptance of one thing comes the dying of another: a new belief, a relationship. An ideal, a plan, a what-if. Assumptions. A path. A song.
Sarah Ockler
#34. It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.
Frederick Lenz
#35. Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.
Laurence Freeman
#36. One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
Baz Luhrmann
#37. It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented
Agona Apell
#38. And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#39. Wide acceptance of a quote is not the proof of its validity
Dan Brown
#40. PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
Diane Wakoski
#41. Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.
David Richo
#42. Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
P. W. Botha
#44. The battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.
A. D. Coleman
#45. The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!
Saint Francis De Sales
#46. What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
Anais Nin
#47. Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
Francesco Clemente
#48. Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.
Nido R. Qubein
#49. If athletes could think of SM as sports, they'd understand the acceptance of pain, but they'd always want to know who was winning.
Joseph W. Bean
#50. We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.
Ian Somerhalder
#51. questions hold the power to cause us to think, create answers we believe in, and motivate us to act on our ideas. Asking moves us beyond passive acceptance of what others say, or staying stuck in present circumstances, to aggressively applying our creative ability to the problem.
Tony Stoltzfus
#52. By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.
Wayne Dyer
#53. If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.
Joss Whedon
#54. My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
Frank Ocean
#55. Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Ben Ames Williams
#56. We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
Ann Voskamp
#57. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.
Joss Whedon
#58. What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
Edward Sapir
#59. Both Stoicism and Epicureanism - . the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure - were theories as to how one might yet be happy though subjugated or enslaved;
Will Durant
#60. The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.
Thomas Keating
#61. To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.
Giulio Douhet
#62. A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.
Vironika Tugaleva
#63. Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Czeslaw Milosz
#64. True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It's an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#65. An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.
Danielle Steel
#66. Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.
Erndell Scott
#67. The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind.
Eckhart Tolle
#68. Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Madeleine L'Engle
#69. I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 ... The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.
William Thomas Walsh
#70. Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner's acceptance of the other's intractability.
Raymond E. Feist
#71. Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Jean Toomer
#72. Intimacy puts us in touch with fragility, he realized, and the acceptance of fragility opens us to intimacy.
Mark Epstein
#73. Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.
Dan Brown
#74. Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.
Francis Quarles
#75. The language of love is unspoken. It is a feeling, an acknowledgment, and acceptance of not only our human frailties, but our divine eminence.
Charles F. Glassman
#76. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.
Wayne Dyer
#77. It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
Winston Churchill
#78. We gauge what we think is possible by what we know from experience, and our acceptance of scientific insights, in particular, is incremental, gained one experience at a time.
Bernd Heinrich
#79. Acceptance of Christ and appropriation of every element in redemption is conditional on awareness of God's holiness and conviction of the depth of our sin.
Richard F. Lovelace
#80. Accepting God's acceptance of me doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying. It means I'm going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.
Steven Furtick
#81. Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.
Israel Shenker
#82. All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.
David Novak
#83. I would love my older self to not be in the story of how it should have been, but to live in deep acceptance of how it is.
Boyd Varty
#85. The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
Neal A. Maxwell
#86. The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#87. Only the total and unconditional acceptance of yourself makes you able to love and to be loved by others.
Human Angels
#88. An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.
Derek R. Audette
#89. Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
Brian Herbert
#90. The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ.
John L. Lewis
#91. The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
Stewart O'Nan
#92. Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
Jacob Bronowski
#93. What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience ... Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.
Edd Doerr
#94. Belief is the uncritical acceptance of something you can't prove.
Hans Holzer
#95. We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
Helen Keller
#96. Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
Betty Friedan
#97. Objective judgment ... Unselfish action ... Willing acceptance ... of all external events.
Marcus Aurelius
#98. The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.
Frederick Lenz
#99. I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.
Dean Kamen
#100. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi
