Accepting Quotes

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

Accept certain inalienable truths.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

When you are like a maniac, you just have to accept where you are and what's going on in your life.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?

The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

She couldn’t help wondering if that was how one made the decision to forgive or not. If letting go hurt more than accepting someone’s mistakes.

There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.

Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

We will not accept any conditions from the U.S.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

My bank does not accept likes.

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

Another wing of the party seems to be putting its hands up. They're not all resisting and accepting the [Donald] Trump - the fact that he could very well win the nomination.

Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't like. It's about self-acceptance, number one, and it's also about accepting our creation.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

There are a lot of things in the world that are a lot weirder than psychic abilities, that we accept as true.

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.