Top 100 Quotes About Acceptance
#1. True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.
Johnathan Jena
#2. True beauty is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it.
Terri Cheney
#3. Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.
Nikki Gemmell
#4. Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.
Dave Mearns
#5. The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.
Miguel Ruiz
#6. Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know.
Tim Gallwey
#7. Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.
Jonathan Haidt
#8. Everything changes when we finally cast off the shackles of striving for approval and acceptance outside of our own skin and instead decide that we are in fact good enough - that there is nothing we need to do to earn acceptance, approval, or love. When
Karen Kimsey-House
#9. Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#10. Between a book's covers there may be passion, bile, mayhem, or murder, but in the quiet spaces where it awaits its fate (either acceptance of indifference) all is calm.
David Abbott
#11. I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.
Steve Forbert
#12. Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.
Rick Warren
#13. Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.
Simone Weil
#14. The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.
Neil Postman
#15. If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!
Sinead O'Connor
#16. Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
Seth Godin
#17. Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.
Louise L. Hay
#18. Acceptance is the key to be truly free.
Katy Perry
#19. Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
Joan D. Chittister
#20. Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
Kangana Ranaut
#21. Acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.
Ethel Smyth
#22. Pain demands acceptance. It
Namrata
#23. And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.
Cassandra Clare
#24. A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
David Mamet
#25. In a world in which the personal is widely believed to be the political, the sheep of toleration soon turns into the wolf that demands acceptance, indeed, admiration.
Kenneth Minogue
#26. I forgot at the time that this inability to penetrate a room is a particular form of hesitation to be associated with persons in whom an extreme egoism is dominant: the acceptance of someone else's place or dwelling possibly implying some distasteful abnegation of the newcomer's rights or position.
Anthony Powell
#27. Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
Sri Chinmoy
#28. Acceptance.
Good and bad,
Fortune and misfortune,
Pleasure and pain,
I want it all,
Because it's mine.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#29. In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
Bryant H. McGill
#30. Winners accept responsibility because acceptance of responsibility nullifies excuses.
George M. Gilbert
#31. Remember in Galatians, for instance, how exasperated and angry he is. That's an expression of love as well, because he loves them enough to correct the church's acceptance of heresy.
Matt Chandler
#33. Family cannot be determined by blood. Family is determined by actions. Family is about trust. Family is about acceptance. Family is about love. True family is earned, not born.
Sarah Brianne
#34. For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the intellectuals.
Murray N. Rothbard
#35. Illness was admirable training in the creative art of grateful acceptance. Pain accepted was just pain, and heavy, but Harriet believed that pain gladly accepted took wings, went somewhere and did something.
Elizabeth Goudge
#36. The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.
Lisa Wingate
#37. When I've practiced acceptance, when I've floated instead of fought, when I've rested, even for a moment, on the surface instead of wrestling the water itself. And those moments are like heaven.
Shauna Niequist
#38. In love, there is a total acceptance of self, and a willingness to give of self without an expectation of receiving anything in return. When you love, you are not afraid to share the truth of who you are, and you accept the truth of others without judgment.
Iyanla Vanzant
#39. There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition.
Penny Reid
#40. I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.
Lawren Harris
#42. The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.
Jeffrey Kluger
#43. It was hard to remember what I'd been so scared of. Being treated differently? Lack of acceptance? I was the one who hadn't accepted myself for who I was. I was the one who needed to be comfortable in my own skin. I hoped I could do that moving forward.
Kasie West
#44. The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E.B. White
#45. The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#46. The simple fact is that evil preys on good, and today, good had a bad day. Which brings with it an acceptance of the other side of that argument, that tomorrow might be evil's turn for some rain. And that's called hope.
Cody McFadyen
#47. The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.
Marianne Williamson
#48. I think that sometimes people misinterpret understand and acceptance and make it into something that it isn't.
Jessica Sorensen
#49. The first step to building resilience is to take responsibility for who you are and for your life. If you're not willing to do that, stop wasting your time reading this letter. The essence of responsibility is the acceptance of the consequences - good and bad - of your actions.
Eric Greitens
#50. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness.
Carson McCullers
#51. Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.
Rajneesh
#52. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Roy Hattersley
#53. Look toward the Soul's guidance, which is not just ready to be shared - but, awaits you acceptance.
Eleesha
#54. With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know.
Warwick Middleton
#55. It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.
Kiera Cass
#56. The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.
Arjun Rampal
#57. Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving ... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
Alexander McCall Smith
#58. I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.
Ice Cube
#59. I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.
Jason Mraz
#60. A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance ...
Jack Kornfield
#61. 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham
#62. Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Dee Hock
#63. Liberty in acceptance; peace in enclosure; happiness in renunciation.
Lauren Oliver
#64. The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.
Elliot W. Eisner
#65. Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.
Eckhart Tolle
#66. Acceptance is easier than resentment and anger. So is forgiveness.
J.A. Baker
#68. God's presence in our lives fills us with His acceptance and love.
Lysa TerKeurst
#69. Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree
India.Arie
#70. Some people are only around for just a little bit and others longer. It comes down to attitude and acceptance of those changes if you want to continue to grow together - shit,
Anyta Sunday
#71. To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.
Simon Sinek
#72. The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.
Gloria Steinem
#73. Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
Pema Chodron
#74. Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.
Jerry Bridges
#75. To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first ... acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] ... the second ... that one must never, in one's life, accept ... injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.
James Baldwin
#76. Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#77. Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
Bob Goff
#78. Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one's thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.
Dan Mager
#79. Desire wasn't the only thing between us. There was so much more: forgiveness, acceptance, relief, and most importantly, love.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#81. If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness
which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect.
from Unleash the Writer Within
Cecil Murphey
#82. The old Ivy feared parental reaction from each tiny act of defiance. But the new Ivy says, "Fuck 'em all!" a sentiment that Rachel will surely appreciate. My new motto? Be who you are and own that shit-because only with true self-acceptance comes peace and joy.
B.L. Berry
#83. Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
Nathaniel Branden
#84. I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
Cherie Lunghi
#85. I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.
Giada De Laurentiis
#86. Fake Self-Actualization Loophole: Often, a loophole is disguised as an embrace of life or an acceptance of self, so that the failure to pursue a habit seems life-affirming - almost spiritual.
Gretchen Rubin
#87. Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.
Ronald Blythe
#88. I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be.
Michael Novak
#90. A complete acceptance of personal responsibility is not optional. Whenever you find yourself putting responsibility outside of you, stop and remind yourself that you are responsible, especially when it is easy to blame someone else.
Malti Bhojwani
#91. He should accept me as I am! says the woman who is too nice.
Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you
madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a
doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.
Sherry Argov
#92. Essential to receiving divine forgiveness are personal, individual recognition and acceptance of our Father's mercy, made available to us by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and a renewed covenant to obey the principles of the gospel.
Ronald E. Poelman
#93. Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert,
Timothy Keller
#94. Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.
Maajid Nawaz
#95. I sent a mass of thanks, love, trust through Constantine's threads, as I escaped. Resigned acceptance, irritation, and grudging fondness returned along the path.
Anne Zoelle
#96. The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
Noah Levine
#97. To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
Simon Sinek
#98. Starbucks considers a product's success not only in terms of consumer acceptance but also in terms of employee
Fast Company
#99. You cannot be anything other than who you are. Trees don't stand around comparing heights. Flowers don't compare colours. There is a great power in total acceptance.
Stephen Shaw
#100. If at the present day it has found a warm welcome among certain circles in Europe, it is because all those who hope to derive from humanitarianism a moral code of human kindness for the acceptance of an atheistic society are already implicitly Buddhists.
Jacques Maritain
