Being Accepted Quotes

#1. If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

Danica Patrick

#2. Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

Alfie Kohn

#3. Haier, a Chinese brand, exemplifies the trend of emerging market companies building brands that are being accepted, if not recognized, by the Western consumer.

Nirmalya Kumar

#4. I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Emanuel Steward

#5. I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

Larry Doby

#6. The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

Hasan Of Basra

#7. She was finally owned up- it took death as a price for her being accepted.

Aporva Kala

#8. When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

Dave Pelzer

#9. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

Andrew Solomon

#10. And that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever

George Saunders

#11. The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.

Robert Kiyosaki

#12. When you strive in the way of the Almighty, you don't worry about being accepted or having the approval of others. You know your priority.

Mufti Ismail Menk

#13. To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence

Billy Corgan

#14. The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

Joe Jamail

#15. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

#16. 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

#17. For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted.

Neil Strauss

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

Michael L. Brown

#19. Love is being accepted and adored for who you are, scars and all

Sara Wolf

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

Mike Tyson

#21. You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

Sonny Rollins

#22. There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.

Katrina Kaif

#23. They managed to find time ... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

C.S. Forester

#24. However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.

Alison Assiter

#25. The fact that I could correctly make a reference to the Borg was probably part of the reason I was not being accepted into the Collective.

Molly Harper

#26. [T]he act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Irvin D. Yalom

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I believe that if we build sincere friendships, without being judgmental, the chances of our message being accepted are greater.

H.H. Fowler

#30. Being attractive should have nothing to do with being accepted. It is what is inside a person that matters,

Julie Garwood

#31. It's the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#32. When you have been often rejected, you become traumatized and develop a kind of apathy and nonchalance to being accepted.

Emmanuel Olawale

#33. When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.

Billy Casper

#34. The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.

Freeman Dyson

#35. Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

Joseph Conrad

#36. Someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

Jan Burke

#37. Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Stephen Fry

#38. A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

Madonna Ciccone

#39. I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

Erich Segal

#40. I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

Olympia Dukakis

#41. Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.

Crystal Renn

#42. 'Betchya Got A Cure' is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It's about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#43. I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

#44. What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?

Fred Rogers

#45. A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo!

Avijeet Das

#46. If you base your identity on having friends, being accepted, and being popular, you may find yourself compromising your standards or changing them every weekend to accommodate your friends.

Sean Covey

#47. When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.

Morgan Freeman

#48. Anger always involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others.

Foundation For Inner Peace

#49. You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? ... That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

Donna Karan

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.

Jennifer Egan

#53. Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.

Jean Craighead George

#54. Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

Alain De Botton

#55. I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out.

Troy Andrews

#56. To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

Michael Sam

#57. Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

Alan Zweibel

#58. I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a revelation though. Turns out everyone is.

Daniel Pearce

#59. I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

Wes Borland

#60. Prior to postmodernism, it was all but impossible to claim that one was a cultural Christian, Jew, or Muslim. There was no such thing. Now, being culturally religious is a widely accepted stance.

Gudjon Bergmann

#61. The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

Mary Engelbreit

#62. I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

Kelly Osbourne

#63. Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

Scot McKnight

#64. Autism. STOP sugar coating it to make it easier to swallow. I don't have a superpower, sparkles or rainbows. I'm me. I need to be accepted for being me. In the world I live in, I have a disability

Tina J. Richardson

#65. You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.

Harvey MacKay

#66. My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

Anna White

#67. A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.

A.J. Darkholme

#68. Being able to understand it was of no great importance. We see no visions because we live in an age in which they are not permitted; but if we accepted the idea of them, who's to say what we wouldn't see? Marriage is no longer a mystical union but a social contract.

Deirdre Madden

#69. Stokes is running a little late this morning, ma'am. Like, an emergency, you know. Being a woman of moderate expectations, Jacqueline accepted the stumbling

Elizabeth Peters

#70. I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

Francoise Sagan

#71. I have never felt guilty of my ability. I have never felt guilty of my mind. I have never felt guilty of being a man. I accepted no unearned guilt, and thus was free to earn and to know my own value.

Ayn Rand

#72. If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.

Tom Felton

#73. That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Sarah Dessen

#74. In Polmont, everyone was acting the hard man and giving it the large. I had to fight or cosh or do something to be accepted. I can tell you, it was better to be in a gang than being on your own, and I'd do anything in Polmont, no questions asked!

Stephen Richards

#75. Being a witch was indeed an onerous task. If people accepted us, they wanted the impossible. If they didn't, they wanted to burn us at the stake.

Maria E. Schneider

#76. You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.

Lee Krasner

#77. Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

John Hench

#78. Gradually, he didn't doubt, the world would calm down into a gigantic welfare state devoted to sporting, cultural and sexual exchange, with the accepted international currency being items of hifi equipment.

Julian Barnes

#79. Rather than demanding our rights and creating for ourselves a world where we feel safe and accepted, we need to see the deep spiritual needs of the world and concern ourselves with offering people hope through Jesus Christ. That's what being a living sacrifice is all about. Third,

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#80. But the happiest he ever saw his father was when he was with Ethan, someone who never knew him as he was before, who simply accepted the person he was trying to be. Jin wasn't acting then, he thinks. He was just being kind to Ethan, returning the very thing that everyone else had denied him.

Jung Yun

#81. I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.

Chris Baio

#82. Marriages don't end simply because a lack of trust exists. Marriages more specifically end because foundational agreements were broken, disrespectful behavior occurred, healthy and honest communication is lacking, or not "being seen or accepted" has ensued for too long.

Elaina Marie

#83. Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Anthony Storr

#84. I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

Bernhard Schlink

#85. This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for
what it was. She didn't pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.

Abbi Glines

#86. Naw, I wasn't going to sell my principles for them. I wanted to be accepted as a good musician and that didn't call for no grinning, but just being able to play the horn good. And that's what I did then and now. Critics can take that or leave it.

Miles Davis

#87. I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

Jaron Lanier

#88. Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.

Cameron Dokey

#89. I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.

Amy B. Harris

#90. It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game.

Harmon Killebrew

#91. Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it

Richard Wright

#92. Do you know how hard it is to be offered the one thing you always wanted just after you've convinced yourself that you don't anymore? Just when you've accepted that you'll never have it? It's cruel. Worse than never being offered it at all.

C.M. Stunich

#93. I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.

Ted Danson

#94. I was a salsa dancer for the majority of my life, from, like, 7 to 17, and did the World Salsa Congresses. I realized that I wanted to continue obviously to be a performer. But in my household, being an actor and jumping into acting is not really accepted.

Gina Rodriguez

#95. I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.

Joe R. Lansdale

#96. Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.

Michael Behe

#97. Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Rajneesh

#98. I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin

#99. Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

Joyce Meyer

#100. I accepted being a damn damsel in distress for you. You can be the hunky archangel in distress for once.

Nalini Singh