Acceptance Quotes

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

Yours is only what you always have on you.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.