Accepting Quotes
4387 quotes by 2775 authors
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
— Lord Acton
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts…
— Lord Acton
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By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the whole you, the…
— Rod Stryker
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If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
— Chris Brogan
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Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
— Unknown Author
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Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating…
— Justina Chen
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The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
— J C Watts
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Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept…
— Robert Kennedy
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Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts…
— Sydney J. Harris
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our…
— Sydney J. Harris
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That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we…
— Donald Miller
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Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are…
— Alain de Botton
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I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it,…
— Louise Mensch
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Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out…
— Louise Mensch
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
— Ransom Riggs
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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
— Anne Tyler
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