To Be Accepted Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

J. C. Watts

#3. She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her.

L.J.Smith

#4. My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters ... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures ... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club

Kurt Schwitters

#5. Fitting in and belonging are two separate things. Fitting in involves people changing themselves in order to be accepted. Belonging allows people to be accepted as they are.

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#6. I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it.

Oliver Kahn

#7. I dress to withstand the elements. I dress to be as interesting as the Tate. I dress to insert myself into social strata, to be accepted, to pass.

Caitlynn Cummings

#8. Through my unique style of playing, I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

Lindsey Stirling

#9. All my life I wanted to be accepted.

Khali Raymond

#10. A man can have no greater honour than to be accepted by God as an able Minister of the gospel

Obameso Sunkanmi

#11. I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

Anton Zeilinger

#12. The atonement is a miracle, and miracles are rather to be accepted by faith than measured by calculation.

Anonymous

#13. The Velmas of the world do not intern at CNN, hope to be accepted at Columbia J-School after graduating NYU with honors, and go on to win Pulitzer Prizes by getting bogged down in relationship drama. That's a problem for the Daphnes of the world. Daphne, you bitch, you can't even drive the damn van.

Rachel Cohn

#14. It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

Ayn Rand

#15. I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Bernadette Peters

#16. People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

Sandra Bernhard

#17. An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#18. I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.

Darren Star

#19. You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

Lewis Hamilton

#20. I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

Paul Giamatti

#21. Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Lesbians and gays ... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

Catherine Deneuve

#23. And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same - playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?

Graeme Simsion

#24. I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.

Jennifer Warnes

#25. Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.
George Saunders
The Bookseller

C. Robert Cales

#26. All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?

Derrick Jensen

#27. Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

Samuel P. Huntington

#28. What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#29. People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

Kathleen Turner

#31. The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

Jennifer Coolidge

#32. Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

Rafael Sabatini

#33. Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

James McGreevey

#34. Someone once told me women want to be understood, while men want to be accepted.

Opal Mellon

#35. Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

Leonard Ravenhill

#36. Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it.

Deepak Chopra

#37. And I understood why he didn't need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.

Matthew Quick

#38. The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves.

Miguel Ruiz

#39. If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.

Emma Watson

#40. A gift, to be a gift, has to be accepted. Otherwise it lies like a burden between people.

Robert Fisher

#41. Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Gloria Steinem

#42. The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

Alexander MacLaren

#43. All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.

Vanilla Ice

#44. On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.

Greg Giraldo

#45. Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

Stephen Spender

#46. And then it was my turn to blink back the tears. It wasn't like I was ever going to replace my mother; but it felt special to be accepted, with all my flaws, by the mother of the person I might marry (p.200)

Kiera Cass

#47. The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#48. I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

Jenna Fischer

#49. If you want to be accepted, accept yourself and what you have. Not what you think you feel and what you want. Accept your situation. Accept yourself physically.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#50. Wanting to be accepted is something I like a lot of people can relate to.

Janel Parrish

#51. We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

Bill Cosby

#52. To be accepted by others is a small achievement.
To accept yourself is a great achievement.
To be accepted by God is the greatest achievement.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#53. Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.

John Podhoretz

#54. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

Gloria Steinem

#55. We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

Woodrow Wilson

#56. Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to be accepted in the same spirit as one accepts the changes of the seasons.

W. Somerset Maugham

#57. It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Stephen Covey

#58. There is really nothing to be achieved here; only something to be accepted-the fact of your own divinity.

Paul Brunton

#59. Two Things to be accepted for sure in life time?
1. Birth
2. Death

Deepak Yadav

#60. It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

Mos Def

#61. The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

Ryan White

#62. Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.

Hanna Rosin

#63. Salvation isn't about sets of words. It's an attitude of the heart. The words have no power in and of themselves; it's not a formula we have to perfect in order to be accepted.

Angie Smith

#64. Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.

Paulo Coelho

#65. No data are excluded on subjective or arbitrary grounds. No one piece of data is more highly valued than another. The consequences of this policy have to be accepted, even if they prove awkward.

Jennifer K. McArthur

#66. That's the truth," Quinton said. "I think that's what all of us are looking for, inside of BDSM or not. To be understood, to find our like-minded tribe, to be accepted and belong, no matter what.

Laura Kaye

#67. A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

Isaac

#68. Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings ... their importance, their dignity ... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#69. It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.

Isabella Rossellini

#70. I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Jessica Savitch

#71. What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.

William Barrett

#72. On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.

Jerusalem Jackson Greer

#73. The boy wanted to be accepted as he was, to be reassured that he was not a monster, to be loved by someone, not as the result of force or desire, but through shared feelings and closeness.

Alan McCluskey

#74. The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

#75. No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

Bruce R. McConkie

#76. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Rabindranath Tagore

#77. Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

Walter Brueggemann

#78. I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

Dan Jenkins

#79. It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

R.L. Stine

#80. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

Mother Teresa

#81. Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#82. A biomass will do whatever it takes to be accepted by the society

Sunday Adelaja

#83. I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

Gene Tierney

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

Wendy Mass

#87. I cried for the little girl who lost her father but never had a mother. I cried for the girl who only wanted to be accepted, but was never enough. I cried for the girl who suffered unfathomable pain at the hands of hate. I cried for the girl who deserved to be loved but didn't know how.

Rebecca Donovan

#88. When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#89. The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

Malcolm X

#90. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him? Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.

David Platt

#91. Prayer of Thanks Father, help me to love and appreciate the person You created me to be. I thank You that I don't have to compare myself to others in order to be accepted. You created me with a unique and wonderful purpose. I'm thankful that to You, I am special and beyond compare.

Joyce Meyer

#92. I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#93. I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

Suzi Quatro

#94. When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)

Daniel Quinn

#95. Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

Kevin Grevioux

#96. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

Brene Brown

#97. 'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Sandra Cisneros

#98. The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

Edmund Stoiber

#99. For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are, even if they receive only a fraction of love. I don't think one cancels out the other. I don't believe that there is any right or wrong ... we simply coexist.

Natsuki Takaya

#100. Part of it was a feminist streak and the other part of it was the ultimate in antifeminism: a deeply rooted need in me to be accepted by my dad and by other men. If I could do the same things as them, I would be accepted into their world.

Melanie Neale