Accepting Quotes

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There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive. — Eckhart Tolle
True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance.… — Vince Lombardi
Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long… — Owen D. Young
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon. — Georges St-Pierre
The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in… — Sheila Jackson Lee
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain.… — Anton Szandor LaVey
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be… — M.C. Escher
I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes… — M.C. Escher
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure… — Victor Davis Hanson
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility… — Paulo Freire
The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in… — Paulo Freire
It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the… — Edwin Way Teale
I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer, you automatically accept… — Jim Steranko
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent… — Yukio Mishima
I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making… — Alonzo Mourning
Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more… — Steven Biko
Iâ€™d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because itâ€™s a huge part of being a writer, no matter… — A. J. Jacobs

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