Accepting People As They Are Quotes

#1. Love is acceptance - accepting people as they are. Just acceptance and caring.

Louise Hay

#2. Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

Marianne Williamson

#3. I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

Matt Taibbi

#4. He would carry this burn scar through life and it was time to start accepting it. There were, doubtless, people who would see it as Malik did, but then, should he really care what people like Malik thought?

Jonathan Renshaw

#5. There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Alain Resnais

#6. People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

Claire Danes

#8. That Mossberg," Boris said to me, accepting the bottle passed over the front seat. "Evil dirty thing. Sawed off
? sprays pellets here to Hamburg. Aim it way the fuck away from everyone and still you will hit half the people in the room.

Donna Tartt

#9. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are - or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Michael J. Sullivan

#10. People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

John Zorn

#11. Readers tend to tolerate such "accidents" ... when they get the characters into trouble but they're less accepting when the author uses them to rescue people. The "deus ex machina" ... in one stroke it renders meaningless all the efforts of the cast.

Thomas McCormack

#12. If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.

Jordan Knight

#13. President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again.

Jay Leno

#14. Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.

Jeanette Jenkins

#15. How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

Alain De Botton

#16. There are billions of people in this world that don't believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don't have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.

Daniel Willey

#17. I often ask people if they would like to give their organs when they pass on, and they say "Well, I'm not so sure, I don't know." And I said, "Well, would you accept one if you needed one?" "Well, yeah, sure." And I say "Well, there you go - where do you get them from?".

Larry Hagman

#18. It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#19. I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

Kylie Jenner

#20. Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Marco Pierre White

#21. The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.

Celeste Ng

#22. People aren't always what they appear, James. The gift is accepting them as who they are, not who we want them to be.

Katherine Reay

#23. One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular values like equality of all people before the law. Islam does not accept people are equal before the law.

Mark Durie

#24. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

Tom Lehman

#25. Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.

Colleen Hoover

#26. When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

Nathaniel Branden

#27. By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.

Ilchi Lee

#28. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.

Osho

#29. It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

Sharon Stone

#30. The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

Dick Gregory

#31. Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Gregg Easterbrook

#32. I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.

Lupita Nyong'o

#33. I feel like I'm man of the people: meeting people, respecting people and accepting people.

Lil B

#34. Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.

Caitlin Doughty

#35. When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.

Donna Karan

#36. My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#37. You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.

Blake Nelson

#38. We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

Phillip E. Johnson

#39. Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation

Sunday Adelaja

#40. You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Shakti Gawain

#41. I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

Francois Duvalier

#42. Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.

Kilroy J. Oldster