Acceptance Quotes

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. — William James
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. — William James
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. — Thomas Jefferson
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. — Michael Jordan
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. — Michael Jordan
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. — Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. — Carl Jung
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is… — Helen Keller
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. — John F. Kennedy
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — Henry A. Kissinger
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. — Eartha Kitt
The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your… — Jeffrey Kluger
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. — Arthur Koestler
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. — Dalai Lama

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