Accepting Quotes

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

It's easier for me to accept that I can't play anymore because I literally gave it all I got. That allows me to be a little bit more at peace.

You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

I had to brainwash myself, like what I was doing was going to be really, really good, and then just accept whatever happened.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

I do think in the present state of both the Church and society we have a long way to go toward accepting and loving others that look or act differently than we do.

Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available.

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?" "Yeah," Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda.

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.

Instead of focusing on that unappeasable person, refocus on Jesus, who accepts you unconditionally.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

For what constitutes a Christian is not; accepting the Christian's creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question of personal loyalty and love.

We can only receive what our minds are capable of accepting.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.

Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.