Hard To Accept Quotes

#1. It's just hard to accept
the possibility of ... I don't know,
being less."
"Then don't accept it.

Kiera Cass

#2. They each have their own journeys. It's hard to accept, but people leave us along the way. People don't always stay with us until the end of the story.

Yasmine Galenorn

#3. The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

Wendell Berry

#4. Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become ...

Paul Outerbridge

#5. The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

Robert T. Bakker

#6. As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.

Ben Lovett

#7. I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

Chen Shui-bian

#8. It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

Tony Parker

#9. In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.

Fr. Henry Bocala

#10. It's not hard to fail ... it's hard to accept you failed ... but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing

Josh Stern

#11. Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. I am a fan of the truth even if it is painfully hard to accept

Dan Brown

#13. It's difficult to reconcile the fantastic with reality; hard to accept that things we can't see exist - terrifying, in fact.

Mary Lindsey

#14. It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

Patricia Briggs

#15. I'm a fan of the truth ... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Dan Brown

#16. It's hard to accept yourself as someone you don't desire / As someone you don't want to be.

Laura Marling

#17. Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

Geoff Mulgan

#18. If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Madonna Ciccone

#19. ... It is so hard to accept that life is falling and landing and falling and landing. I agree it's not ideal. I agree

John Green

#20. I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

Doris Lessing

#21. We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms ... the result might be hard to accept.

E. O. Wilson

#22. It's hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

Umberto Eco

#23. Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that a fact is so is the cause upon which we base the proof.

Gerolamo Cardano

#24. I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.

J. L. Mackie

#25. If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

D. A. Carson

#26. You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Robert Breault

#27. Hard to accept the end of a story
that won the villain against heroes.

Toba Beta

#28. This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what's going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that "science" means more data.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#29. He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

Thomas Harris

#30. Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won.

Dean Koontz

#31. Sometimes it is hard to accept God's provision, but He is unchanging and always lovingly cares for us.

Gary Chapman

#32. When you lose someone you care about, it's hard to accept that the universe doesn't notice the huge void.

Jennifer Ashley

#33. Some mommies and daddies find it hard to accept
Kids who are different to the normal set.

Christina Engela

#34. It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

John Robert Seeley

#35. My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

Ray Romano

#36. It was hard to accept that she had almost no feelings, maybe
none at all, for me as a man. This hurt so bad at times it felt like
someone was gouging out my guts with a knife. Still, the time I
spent with her was more precious than anything.

Haruki Murakami

#37. But don't you also find it hard to accept that your [mankind's] attempts to solve your problems fail with predictable regularity? It seems to us [Luxenbenites] you would welcome an overall solution.

Dan Hurwitz

#38. It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

Jim Caviezel

#39. People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.

Ronda Rousey

#40. It was hard to accept, but when the heart-shed of a faded sparkle was tallied, a dim fullness came over me. Maybe some things are just meant to be cherished the way they are: Unfinished, left unturned, wondering what could be and could have been.

Kevin Focke

#41. If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

Al Gore

#42. For some reason for me, and a lot of people, it's so hard to accept help even when it's from your closest friends.

Jenna Morasca

#43. It's hard to accept that depression is an illness, that moping around from day to day with no will for so many years is not my fault.

Francisco X Stork

#44. Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

Lynne Truss

#45. I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you know? So, no, I don't forgive you. But I fucking accept you, including all the shit you do that tests my patience. Because I love you.

Liora Blake

#46. For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Alison Lohman

#47. The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.

Eckhart Tolle

#48. You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do ... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.

Creed Bratton

#49. Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

Ellen Hopkins

#50. I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

Zooey Deschanel

#51. After killing Harley Kayson, my vampire lover's sire, and taking over the club, I'd been forced to look around and accept the cold hard fact that I ran a whorehouse for vampires. There was no way to sugar-coat it. Just call me, "Madam.

Trina M. Lee

#52. I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.

Usain Bolt

#53. Sometimes you need to swallow hard and recognise your enemy as a fellow human being like who has the same rights as you and accept that you need to live in same space.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#54. Dying was a part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if you expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand, at least it wasn't impossible to accept.

Stephen King

#55. Hard times make people willing to accept a man who preaches change.

Brandon Sanderson

#56. We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

Rich Mullins

#57. The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

Jacque Fresco

#58. I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

Alex Chiu

#59. Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Paul Auster

#60. Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

Lee Gutkind

#61. I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

Rachel Zucker

#62. What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Barack Obama

#63. Freedom. One night when a hard-fought "no" had instead made her unable to accept a man's touch. Even a man she cared for very deeply. She had let Michael believe that her emotional collapse

Dorien Kelly

#64. This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.

David Burkus

#65. It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

Ellen Greene

#66. When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

Grace Jones

#67. You need to make a decision. Either be with her and accept the bad with the good, or get out of her life. Because like it or not, you represent Christ to her, and the last thing she needs is for you to walk away when things get hard.

Tammy L. Gray

#68. A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.

Paul Bloom

#69. The world is hard because you may wake up today but not tomorrow. And yet no one will accept "fear of death and a futile existence" as a reasonable excuse to miss work.
The world is hard because you will have to fight for the things you love or worse, fight the things you love.

Iain Thomas

#70. It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.

Gilda Radner

#71. Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Marge Kennedy

#72. In other restless positions you have no power to accept your difficulties, but in the zazen posture which you have acquired by long, hard practice, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether they are agreeable or disagreeable.

Shunryu Suzuki

#73. Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#74. Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

William Osler

#75. What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

Patrick Stewart

#76. If she cries, I want to wear pants for a week," I offered.
"Done," Maxon said. "And if she doesn't, you owe me a walk around the grounds tomorrow afternoon."
"You drive a hard bargain, sir, but I accept.

Kiera Cass

#77. I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.

Guy Kawasaki

#78. However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives.

Charles Duhigg

#79. It's a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.

Scott Overton

#80. Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.

Hank Green

#81. Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions.

John C. Maxwell

#82. Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#83. When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.

Tom Coburn

#84. If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.

Michelle Wie

#85. It's hard enough to give fearlessly, and it's even harder to receive fearlessly.
But within that exchange lies the hardest thing of all:
To ask. Without shame.
And to accept the help that people offer.
Not to force them.
Just to let them.

Amanda Palmer

#86. Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

Arthur Hertzberg

#87. I consider prayer to be of immense psychological benefit. But we must accept that its tangible results are often hard to see. When it comes to obtaining certain, direct results, it is clear that prayer cannot match the achievements of, for instance, modern science.

Dalai Lama XIV

#88. Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

Aysha Taryam

#89. We've got some fundamental choices to make about the kind of country we want to be. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well, or are we going to build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead?

Barack Obama

#90. Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

Brent Weeks

#91. It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Shirley Bassey

#92. It's a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you'll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the rest go. You just let it go.

Rysa Walker

#93. The challenge of elucidating living processes
including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit'
is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.

Peter Atkins

#94. Everyone tried so hard to be normal, to fit in and not to accept what they were, what we all were. We were anything but normal.

Carlyle Labuschagne

#95. In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Honore De Balzac

#96. I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

Paula Cole

#97. It's hard for a parent to accept that you can't protect your child from everything.' 'It's hard for a child to accept it too,

Fredrik Backman

#98. All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Paulo Coelho

#99. People are still very uncomfortable with the idea that humans are not specially created species. I believe we are a fantastic species. But we are not created specially. That's very hard for people to accept in their day-to-day routine.

Greg Graffin

#100. Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.

Nick Vujicic