Acceptance Quotes

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Things past redress are now with me past care — William Shakespeare
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken. — Wallace Stevens
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road. — William Cowper
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… — Jane Austen
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must… — Ayn Rand
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there . — Ursula K. Le Guin
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as… — Hannah Arendt
No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited. — Douglas Yates
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest. — Paul Cezanne
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. — M. Scott Peck
The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. — Childe Hassam
The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the… — Kofi Annan
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of… — Otto Rank
If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive… — Kofi Annan
The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined… — Robert Genn
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the… — Robert Genn
I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and… — Lawren Harris
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be… — Arthur Gordon Webster
Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed… — Maria Mitchell
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it… — Max Planck

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