Accepting Quotes
4387 quotes by 2697 authors
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
— Pope John XXIII
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Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough…
— George Carlin
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Have you ever wished you were somebody else? We all have at some point. But eventually we come to realize that the body, mind and…
— Ron Atchison
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Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues,…
— Marianne Williamson
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We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.
— Cynthia Hand
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There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect…
— Jessica Zafra
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Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself.
— Nicole Williams
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Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling…
— Edward Feser
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When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I…
— Ashley Judd
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
— Angela Davis
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So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself
— Stephen Spender
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Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
— Henry David Thoreau
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People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
— Bob Dylan
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Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and…
— Paul Auster
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It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally…
— Aristotle
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Children with harsh fathers accept much of what is thrown their way as normal because they don’t have a frame of reference for anything else,…
— Unknown Author
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We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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