Accepted By Quotes

#1. There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.

James Baldwin

#2. When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

Thom Gunn

#3. I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

Paul Samuelson

#5. Whether chocolate or vanilla, or you're somewhere in between,
A cappuccino mocha or a caramel queen,
Rejected by the black, not accepted by the white world,
And this is dedicated to them dark-skinned white girls.

MURS

#6. Part of it was a feminist streak and the other part of it was the ultimate in antifeminism: a deeply rooted need in me to be accepted by my dad and by other men. If I could do the same things as them, I would be accepted into their world.

Melanie Neale

#7. I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and I was also part of the drama group, which was filled with actors and writers and wasn't really accepted by the rest of the school.

Christina Hendricks

#8. Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#9. Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

Will.i.am

#10. The lusts of this world leads us to fulfill our carnal need to be accepted, but as children of God we are already accepted by a Heavenly Father who is over and above all things.

Monica Johnson

#11. Younger citizens of the town do not know him at all save as a tall, apparently strong and healthy man who loafs in a brooding, saturnine fashion wherever he will be allowed, never exactly accepted by any group.

William Faulkner

#12. I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.

Susumu Tonegawa

#13. TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like 'One Tree Hill,' so you are going into what is already a family - if you are accepted by that family, then it's fantastic fun.

Sasha Jackson

#14. I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.

Victor Hugo

#15. God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#16. I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.

Robert H. Schuller

#17. I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

Edmund Stoiber

#19. 'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Sandra Cisneros

#20. I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

John Gurdon

#21. A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

Tom Bethell

#22. To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

Scott Reed

#23. Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Baruch Spinoza

#24. I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American white feminist writers and activists, and frankly I don't care to be, so I am a womanist. I am feisty and I am given to womanish behavior.

Kola Boof

#25. A biomass will do whatever it takes to be accepted by the society

Sunday Adelaja

#26. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

Mother Teresa

#27. I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!

Leo Kottke

#28. The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#29. The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

Gail Collins

#30. You are asking me: "Why am I scared to accept myself the way I am?" Because you have not been accepted by anyone the way you are. They have created the fear and the apprehension that if you accept yourself you will be rejected by everybody. This

Osho

#31. That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Paul Valery

#32. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#33. A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#34. The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

Winston Churchill

#35. Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

Scott Cunningham

#36. The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#37. It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

Alex Carey

#38. there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.

John Wooden

#39. No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Karen Blixen

#40. I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

Kurt Cobain

#41. If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

Anatoly Chubais

#42. Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

Jerome Charyn

#43. I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public.

George Carlin

#44. I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

Isobelle Carmody

#45. Most therapists grew up struggling to be loved and accepted by others. Because of these early experiences, many of us find it difficult to believe others can be of help to us. We carry this struggle into our adult lives and, inevitably, into our relationships with our clients.

Louis Cozolino

#46. In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Marya Mannes

#47. A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Rick Warren

#48. I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

Donny Osmond

#49. Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Giacomo Casanova

#50. We may not be the kind of people we want to be, we may be a long way from our goals, we may have more failures than achievements, we may not be wealthy or powerful or spiritual, we may not even be happy, but we are nonetheless accepted by God, held in his hands.

Brennan Manning

#51. I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

Jackie Collins

#52. It hasn't been easy, you know. Having the dead for company. Knowing that I'll never be accepted by the living. Only the dead respects me, and they only do that out of fear.

Rick Riordan

#53. There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.

Leo Tolstoy

#54. I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Jerry Bridges

#55. Relations are by product of Money(mostly), keep your finances in line and rest all is taken care This is a fact, which would be rarely accepted by people, but inside everyone knows that ... Those who've not yet experienced it would still say, money cannot buy love, respect bla bla bla ...

Honeya

#56. My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.

Marilynne Robinson

#57. It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For

George Bernard Shaw

#58. The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.

Ayn Rand

#59. A result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs.
The Nature of Mathematics

Max Black

#60. You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

LeCrae

#61. Sharing the emotional part of us with others creates closeness and intimacy. Also, being accepted by someone else for being who we are helps us accept ourselves. This is always a marvelous experience.

Melody Beattie

#62. I just do what I do and hope it's accepted by the public at large. It's different from when Marvin Gaye and Stevie revolutionized what music was 25 years ago. Now there's all this technology that's available to everyone. It's tough to be ahead of anyone.

Brian McKnight

#63. In any area of the U.N. we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

Michelle Bachelet

#64. If you live to please and be accepted by everyone - you will be trusted by no one.

CA

#65. Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

Michael L. Brown

#66. Ultimately it must be accepted by advocates of limited government that the same guns that are promised to protect the population may be used on them.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

#67. And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.

Elena Ferrante

#68. Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.

Mike Tyson

#69. Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#70. The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation ... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#71. Always remember ... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#72. One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'

Rama Swami

#73. Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Neale Donald Walsch

#74. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

Brian Tracy

#75. (T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college ... Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

Jincy Willett

#76. It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!

Chely Wright

#77. Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Harry Houdini

#78. ...our ultimate moral principles can become so completely accepted by us, that we treat them, not as universal imperatives but as matters of fact; they have the same obstinate indubitability.

R.M. Hare

#79. News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

John Lennon

#80. Holiness is not a bid to be noticed or loved or accepted by God. Holiness, rather, is acting out and acting upon the truth that God has noticed, loved and accepted us long before we did anything to warrant that.

Mark Buchanan

#81. I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

Misty Copeland

#82. I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Jessica Savitch

#83. I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

Laurence Yep

#84. Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.

Kingsley Amis

#85. The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

Ryan White

#86. Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Harold Washington

#87. 'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

John Woo

#88. Try as he might, Gatsby remains outside the inner sanctum and nothing he can do will allow him full access. He will never be accepted by anyone but the nouveaux riches.

Kate Maurer

#89. Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

George Saunders

#90. Again with the us. My heart beat a little faster. How many times had I dreamed of being one of the chosen few? To be truly accepted by the in crowd instead of sitting on the sidelines of my own life?

Kay Cassidy

#91. To be accepted by others is a small achievement.
To accept yourself is a great achievement.
To be accepted by God is the greatest achievement.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#92. acceptance is the heart of true love, not judgment. To be fully accepted by another, even in your weakest moment, is to finally feel at rest. You

Nicholas Sparks

#93. There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

Louis L'Amour

#94. I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

Timothy Keller

#95. Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Peter Drucker

#96. If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!

Mallika Sherawat

#97. Our goals are not achieved if all our energy given to us to achieve the goal and self-actualization is directed towards being accepted by our surroundings and to meet their requirements

Sunday Adelaja

#98. Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.

Martin Luther

#99. Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#100. You taught me that this world is not about gay people being accepted by us, but rather us being accepted by you.

Alec John Belle