Accepting Quotes

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

I accept all awards. I like them.

If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself.

The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

I think your typical high-school straight kid nowadays is not the straight guy of yesterday. I think he's way more open and accepting.

There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.