Accepting Quotes
4387 quotes by 2787 authors
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
— Saul Alinsky
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Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with…
— Richard V. Allen
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what…
— John Fowles
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History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
— John F. Kennedy
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To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the…
— James H. Cone
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Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
— James A. Baldwin
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No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.
— Jack H. Adamson
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Accept life, and you must accept regret.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too…
— Gus Grissom
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The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our…
— George C. Marshall
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If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.
— George Allen
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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
— George Pataki
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The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such…
— Linus Pauling
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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where…
— Esther Hicks
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When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the…
— Sheryl Crow
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