Top 100 Accepting You Quotes
#1. Keep harping on about how Europe's close to accepting you," the American ambassador to Moldova suggested coldly to the president, when the latter came to ask for a loan. "They'll grab onto that like a rabbit after a carrot. But I'm sorry. I cannot give you any money.
Vladimir Lorchenkov
#2. What I'm starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They're accepting you for who they think you are.
Kaiylah Muhammad
#3. By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving
Ashleigh Brilliant
#4. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can't be good at everything.
Kelly Williams Brown
#5. If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
Sarah Dessen
#6. And remember, the very idea of getting free is again an ideal. Freedom is not an ideal, it is a by-product of accepting whosoever you are.
Osho
#7. When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that's why you love them.
Patrick Modiano
#8. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.
Antony Sher
#9. You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.
Peter J. Daniels
#10. You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
Garrison Keillor
#11. I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.
Paul Butcher
#12. In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.
John Bush
#13. You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself
Shakti Gawain
#14. To get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. Instead of accepting the default, you take a bit of initiative to seek out an option that might be better. And that act of initiative, however tiny, is a window into what you do at work.
Adam M. Grant
#15. There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.
Gerry Adams
#16. 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
#17. I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.
Allen Iverson
#18. It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.
Jamie Dornan
#19. 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
#20. love can give you is how to live a complete life by accepting its incomplete ways.
Novoneel Chakraborty
#21. Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
Aubrey De Grey
#22. I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
Karl Urban
#23. The world is coloured rather than stained by such beliefs,and accepting another's values is far more Christian than falling to your knees every time you see a stained glass window.
Chris Harrison
#24. In accepting that suffering is a part of your daily existence, you could begin by examining the factors that normally give rise of feelings of discontent and mental unhappiness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#25. Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions.
John C. Maxwell
#26. Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.
Rosalynn Carter
#27. I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.
Art Buchwald
#28. You are mine," he rasped. "Only ever mine. I accept all that you are, and we can be together.
Gena Showalter
#29. I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
Zoe Saldana
#30. I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.
John W. Thompson
#31. You are free to create your own paradigms instead of simply accepting those presented to you by others.
Russell Eric Dobda
#32. When you look at something and think of all the ways you would change it, then you're not accepting it for what it is, nor are you truly appreciating it.
Tristesse Genevieve
#33. Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.
L. Ron Hubbard
#34. Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda.
Pema Chodron
#35. You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.
Bruce Lee
#36. When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
EL Seed
#37. You know, this country today, it seems to me
it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.
Tom Vilsack
#38. I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why do you have to change? Why don't you just accept that this is how you are? Why do you have to grow from an experience?
Meghan Daum
#39. The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people's behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people accepting the choices that you make.
Jennifer O'Neill
#40. The true key, if you want to live an unstoppable life, then you need to take 100% control of your life. Stop blaming others for your failures and faults and start accepting responsibility for your life.
Thomas Narofsky
#41. By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.
Susan Jeffers
#42. The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.
Brian Tracy
#44. You stop accepting yourself and stop connecting three realms of the triangle of awareness within you. You fail to realize that this is mistaken notion that "a lighter you is a happier you" isn't making you happier at all.
Scott Abel
#45. Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all ... be happy just the way you are.
Leon Brown
#46. Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow. Forever changed. I am forever changed.
Jennifer Niven
#47. To become original, you have to try something new, which means accepting some measure of risk.
Adam M. Grant
#48. The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.
Robert Anthony
#50. You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
Giordano Bruno
#51. As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Max McKeown
#52. The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
Neal Boortz
#53. No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.
Kandyse McClure
#54. People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.
Steven Pinker
#55. I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.
Rajneesh
#56. 'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.
Phil Collins
#57. Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Zhuangzi
#58. If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.
Ibn Hazm
#59. It isn't easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you.
Nora Roberts
#60. And though I am a committed Christian, I believe everyone has the right to their own religion - be you Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim, I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.
Stephen Colbert
#61. I'm someone who can fall in love at the drop of the hat. My parents raised me to be very accepting of other people, so because of that, I feel like I might be overly accepting of girls. If a girl shows any interest, I'm like, 'Yes! I love you, you're amazing!'
Josh Hutcherson
#62. Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
Louise Bourgeois
#63. What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.
Wally Olins
#64. In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.
Sonia Choquette
#65. When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.
Zig Ziglar
#66. Upon accepting her Oscar for "Julia," 1978: "My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should.
Vanessa Redgrave
#67. Accepting the world's realities, even when you didn't understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.
Pamela Morsi
#68. Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.
Louise Hay
#69. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
Benjamin Zander
#70. you can live your life afraid to move forward, or you can live your life accepting people for who they are and believing in those people, giving second chances with the hopes that the changes they've worked hard to achieve remain.
Melissa Foster
#71. He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from depression but nobody knows why. I said, Well, thank you for that! As cheerfully as if I was accepting a plate of homemade Christmas cookies from one of my students.
Miriam Toews
#72. Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.
Leonard Jacobson
#73. It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
Sachin Tendulkar
#74. Given that Socrates was effectively assassinated by poison, you might think twice before accepting his invitation to breakfast.
Robert Rowland Smith
#75. Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
William James
#76. Knowledge is power. Power in the aspect of making your own mind up;and, not accepting what others tell you.
Temitope Owosela
#77. You cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#78. When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.
Tom Stoppard
#79. If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."
Aphex Twin
#80. Love means nothing if you can't accept someone for their core values.
Katie Chapman
#81. Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you're not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.
Steve Maraboli
#82. Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.
Mandy Hale
#83. Give that boy a cookie!"
Now really wasn't the time to think about food. And where was she keeping them? In her pockets? They'd be all crumbled.
"I don't want one. Thank you."
Eyebrows raised, she wrinkled her nose - I must have insulted her by not accepting her offer.
Jus Accardo
#84. Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.
Darren Johnson
#85. You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.
Agatha Christie
#86. Beauty is something inside of us. If you love yourself and accept yourself, that shows on the outside. Beauty is an act-it's how you carry yourself.
Gisele Bundchen
#87. As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.
Taylor Spreitler
#88. Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#89. By accepting or even welcoming your challenges, you create opportunities for their gifts to be revealed.
Mike Dooley
#90. I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.
Phil Keoghan
#91. Anything else has no relevance. I can't be what you need me to be. So you'll have to accept this version or waste your time questioning something that has no answer. I know acceptance isn't easy when you're unsure of what you're accepting, but all I can say is that you're accepting me as me.
Krista Ritchie
#92. With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.
Shane Claiborne
#93. The key to accepting change is realizing the great things you have now, at this very moment in time, because one day I guarantee you'll look back on today and wish things were just as they are right now.
C.T. Wente
#94. I love you, Lucy. You take care of me, I take care of you"? -Aspen
"It wasn't a promise, but an invitation. And I nodded my head, accepting it, and stepping into a future bigger than either of us could have hoped for" -Lucy
Kiera Cass
#95. Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.
Swami Vivekananda
#96. You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.
Mandy Hale
#97. It's not a switch you can just flip off", Dr. Marshall had told me once. "If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love-and everything that followed is part of letting it go.
Sarah Dessen
#98. If you continue to live in your past after coming to Jesus and accepting Him as Lord and Savior, then you are still a long way from moving forward
Sunday Adelaja
#99. It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter.
Andy Daly
#100. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
Hunter Hayes
