Acceptance Quotes

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.

The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

I am the only real truth I know.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!