Acceptance Quotes

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

The work praises the man.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

True love is an acceptance of someone else for who they are.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Once you have made a decision and there is no turning back, acceptance is the only comfort.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.