Quotes About Accepting

#1. I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

Lena Olin

#2. I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.

Michael Specter

#3. And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Alberto Caeiro

#4. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

Tom Lehman

#5. I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.

Rajashree Choudhury

#6. Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Pierre Bourdieu

#7. Reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies.

Samuel P. Huntington

#8. Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Janet Macunovich

#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. Somebody's on a man hunt. And she's accepting all applicants with a big wallet, a penis, and a beating heart. Good luck with that.

Kim Holden

#11. Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.

Colleen Hoover

#12. We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.

Susan Stebbing

#13. Everything is acceptable until we stop accepting them.

Peter Adejimi

#14. Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#15. When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

Nathaniel Branden

#16. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can't be good at everything.

Kelly Williams Brown

#18. Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

Malcolm Forbes

#19. I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

Linda Woolverton

#20. Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

Edwin Louis Cole

#21. By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.

Ilchi Lee

#22. 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

#23. We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

John Fowles

#24. 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

#25. Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting.
Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Cheri Huber

#26. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.

Osho

#27. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#28. It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Jane Austen

#29. Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.

Vladimir Putin

#30. The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having gratitude for 'What is' the closer we are to arriving at Nirvana.

Matthew Donnelly

#31. Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

Danielle Steel

#32. It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

Sharon Stone

#33. Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.

Patrick Swayze

#34. To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Tommy Douglas

#35. Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#36. 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

#37. Kids who have been tossed around some, we just want to be accepted. And who is the most accepting group on a school campus? The troublemakers. It may not be right, but sometimes it's as close to right as we can find.

Jenny B. Jones

#38. Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh

#39. 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

#40. One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Robert Frost

#41. Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?

Jeaniene Frost

#42. The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

Dick Gregory

#43. The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

Benjamin Ward Richardson

#44. I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.

Mike Huckabee

#45. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

Tony Abbott

#46. Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations because I could document what happened that way.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#47. He who cannot accept reproof cannot become great.

Nachman Of Breslov

#48. Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

Brian Tracy

#49. I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!

Louise Hay

#50. I do not accept any less than someone just as real, as fabulous!

Lady Gaga

#51. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Malcolm Turnbull

#52. Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.

Sloane Crosley

#53. I found the Course essential in my struggle for personal transformation. It helped me recognize that I really did have a choice of experiencing peace or conflict, and that this choice is always between accepting truth or illusion.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#54. Kelsey breathed in deeply. "He asked me to stay."
"Here?"
"Yes."
"For how long?"
"Until ... until I want to leave, I guess. But he doesn't want me to go yet, and ... I'm thinking of
accepting the offer."
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Maisey Yates

#55. I would much rather have you believe in something I don't agree with than to accept everything blindly.

Adil Hussain

#56. Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.

Vladimir Nabokov

#57. We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Robert Hayden

#58. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#59. When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Phyllis Bottome

#60. Love is not blind. Infatuation is blind. Love is all-seeing and still accepting.

Anamika Mishra

#61. 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

#62. Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing.

Paulo Coelho

#63. 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

#64. You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.

Robert Anton Wilson

#65. I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Peter Dinklage

#66. When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that's why you love them.

Patrick Modiano

#67. But the world had its layers. To the simple it offered simplicity. To the wise it offered profundity. And the only measure of courage worth acknowledging was found in accepting where one stood in that scheme - in hard, unwavering honesty, no matter how humbling.

Steven Erikson

#68. The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Jann Arden

#69. Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

Richard Bach

#70. I have always been hers. Although she is taking her time accepting it." "I

Gail Carriger

#71. The only time you will fear anything is when you say no and resist the universe. You may have heard the expression "Go with the flow." This means consciously accepting what is happening in your life.

Susan Jeffers

#72. It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for.

Shane Koyczan

#73. I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.

Ingrid Betancourt

#74. I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

Jan Hus

#75. I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

Wole Soyinka

#76. An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

Theodor Mommsen

#77. 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

#78. Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

Chloe Thurlow

#79. If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#80. Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Ashley Judd

#81. It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Paul Pearsall

#82. Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

David D. Burns

#83. It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.

Stefon Harris

#84. I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

Geri Halliwell

#85. What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

Gangaji

#86. Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him ... I refuse to accept that.

Cornel West

#87. I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#88. Love isn't jealous. It's kind and patient. It's accepting--it's late night talks and early morning kisses. It's arguing and making up. It's life with the one you can't live without.

Marquita Valentine

#89. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

Charles Hugh Smith

#90. The minister was an honest man so far as he knew himself and honesty, and did not relish this form of submission. But he did not ask himself where was the difference between accepting the word of man and accepting man's explanation of the word of God!

George MacDonald

#91. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

John C. Maxwell

#92. I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#93. Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Gregg Easterbrook

#94. There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#95. I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

Josephine Hart

#96. Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Ellen DeGeneres

#97. The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.

Elaine Orabona Foster

#98. The tolerance of the skeptic ... accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the "dogmatist."

Jean Guitton

#99. 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

#100. Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

Rhianna Pratchett