Top 100 Being Accepting Quotes
#1. Those who choose love - daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life - will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.
Barbara Marciniak
#2. These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant
even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.
Paul Copan
#3. Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
Elon Musk
#4. The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.
Michael Adzema
#5. Words from another person cannot hurt you unless you give them power by taking them into your being, accepting them, and making them yours.
Anne Marie Evers
#6. Love is being accepting of all of their flaws.
Haley Pullos
#7. I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change.
Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives.
I would rather be wise, than nieve.
Nikki Rowe
#8. For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate.
Scott Fujita
#9. Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, being in the moment with it, accepting it as is, watching it grow, enjoying every step of the way.
Marc Allen
#10. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can't be good at everything.
Kelly Williams Brown
#11. I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.
Amy Adams
#12. We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
John Fowles
#13. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.
Franz Kafka
#14. It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
Jane Austen
#15. Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.
Danielle Steel
#16. To the birds, I assume it must've been very much like accepting a ride from a stranger, only to get in the back of the van to find several murdered hikers who were being made into lamp shades. My
Jenny Lawson
#17. Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.
Madeleine L'Engle
#18. I grew up accepting the inevitability that once you became a woman, you were always on a diet. Being a woman equaled loss.
Cathy Alter
#19. It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.
Stefon Harris
#20. Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres
#21. Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'
Manny Pacquiao
#22. [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
#23. We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it - it's just the way it is. Understanding this, accepting it, and practicing it will make you a better helper.
Edward T. Welch
#24. Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.
Bertrand Russell
#25. 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
#26. I think there's something really sexy about being funny and being quirky and weird. I think we're in a generation where we're accepting weirdness and individuality, and I think that's the most important part.
Denise Bidot
#27. Integrity is fundamental to being men. Integrity means being truthful, but it also means accepting responsibility and honoring commitments and covenants.
D. Todd Christofferson
#28. At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.
Brandon Sanderson
#29. Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present.
Matthew Donnelly
#30. I had a lot of trouble accepting God as a human being.
Suhaib Webb
#31. Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.
Sarah Dessen
#32. Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
Jean Anouilh
#33. I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
Augustine Of Hippo
#34. So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!
Mandy Hale
#35. Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.
Walter Abish
#36. Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.
Frederick Lenz
#37. An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He's not making any decisions, he's not weighing one idea against another. He's accepting his first thoughts.
Keith Johnstone
#38. All I can say is the most important part of being in a relationships that you love the person for who they are.
Liv Tyler
#39. We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and myself are quiet; I need to be begged to do these interviews (laughs). But it comes down to being a team, that is the main thing. Knowing, understanding and accepting our roles.
Robbie Merrill
#40. Readiness is a type of choice, being prepared and accepting of things to come...
Sara Raasch
#41. The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.
Luther Standing Bear
#42. Maybe it's NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.
Mandy Hale
#43. I'm already free just to breathe and earlier, I bought a lifetime being free to breathe by accepting your ring.
Kristen Ashley
#44. Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
John Lancaster Spalding
#45. Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps
#46. Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?
Marco Pierre White
#47. Difficult missions will bring difficult challenges which may sometimes produce temporary setbacks. The test of a human being is in accepting the failure and going on trying until he or she succeeds. Managing failure is the essence of leadership.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#48. Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
James A. Autry
#49. The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
Mother Teresa
#50. My supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters.
Gary Johnson
#51. The faith which makes the courage of despair possible is the acceptance of the power of being, even in the grip of non-being. Even in the despair about meaning being affirms itself through us. The act of accepting meaninglessness is in itself a meaningful act. It is an act of faith.
Paul Tillich
#52. One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It's hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It's implicit.
Cliff James
#53. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
Willard Scott
#54. In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.
Neil Gaiman
#55. We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
Wendell Berry
#56. The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
Rajneesh
#57. The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.
Timothy Keller
#58. One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.
Natalie Portman
#59. I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.
Kristin Chenoweth
#60. The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. 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
#62. We accept women being complete c-nts if they're doing it for a child.
Natalie Dormer
#63. Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
Chogyam Trungpa
#65. Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.[17
Charlie Brooker
#66. Being loved and accepting love are two completely different things. It's my job to continue to show it to you. All you have to do is accept it, little by little.
Tijan
#67. Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
Julian Baggini
#68. Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.
Max De Pree
#69. What is the difference between being an independent person
and being a person who is accepting of loneliness
Mira Gonzalez
#70. You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being.
Geneen Roth
#71. By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.
Jane Roberts
#72. Accepting your shadow side is an essential part of being authentic.
Bill George
#73. People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#74. Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.
Nicholas Evans
#75. The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.
Jacque Fresco
#76. We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.
Jocelyn Soriano
#77. You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.
Gautama Buddha
#78. Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.
A.W. Tozer
#79. It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.
India De Beaufort
#80. The difference between finding the right word as opposed to accepting the almost right word was the difference between being struck by lightning and merely watching a lightning display.
Dan Simmons
#81. Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.
Danielle Cormack
#82. If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#83. Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are.
Melody Beattie
#84. The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at
Saul Alinsky
#85. We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.
Cynthia Hand
#86. The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
Elizabeth Thornton
#87. Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.
Terry Goodkind
#88. Let's stop "tolerating" or "accepting" difference, as if we're so much better for not being different. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently.
Kate Bornstein
#89. You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.
Zach Galifianakis
#90. Spirituality is about being able to see what's wrong with ourselves, accepting the idea that we can change, and then showing a willingness to actually transform ourselves.
Karen Berg
#91. Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.
Brian Tracy
#92. Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.
Frederick Lenz
#93. Falling in love can happen to complete strangers. Staying in love requires being best friends and that means accepting the person beneath the veneer.
Ellen Hopkins
#94. As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.
Alicia Sacramone
#95. It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.
Tan Le
#96. Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
Mark Nepo
#97. No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.
Mandy Hale
#99. Part of knowing ourselves is also being able to accept who we are and to value ourselves regardless of our flaws. Accepting who we are allows us to value our worth without conditions or reservations.
Diane Greene