Accepting Quotes
4387 quotes by 2787 authors
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Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was…
— Anne Michaels
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Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also…
— Charles E. Rice
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You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They just keep coming…
— Louis C. K.
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When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth’s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people…
— Rick Bragg
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The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.
— Michael Parenti
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I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the…
— Allyson Felix
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If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people. A bishop will die, but the Church…
— Oscar Romero
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they…
— Andrew Solomon
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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should…
— Andrew Solomon
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I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that…
— Andrew Solomon
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A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to…
— Joan Halifax
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We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can…
— Melody Beattie
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This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We…
— Ken Kesey
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If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as…
— Rob Long
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Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and…
— Joseph M. Marshall III
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