Acceptance Quotes

2150 Acceptance quotes by 1277 unique authors

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance… — Chris Christie
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery… — John Henrik Clarke
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. — Maya Angelou
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted… — Maya Angelou
Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by… — John C. Maxwell
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. — Jean Anouilh
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me. — Lady Gaga
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been… — Kenneth Lee Pike
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely… — Unknown Author
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. — Mary Abigail Dodge
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!. — Marie Bashkirtseff
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Who I am is the best I can be. — Leontyne Price
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our… — Samuel McChord Crothers
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others? — Hasdai ibn Shaprut
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales. — Janet Flanner
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. — Kay Boyle
Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing… — Raquel Welch
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom. — Arnaud Desjardins
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. — Longchenpa
Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others. — Susan L. Taylor
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.… — Edward McKendree Bounds

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